Improving Emotional Intelligence: Self-Awareness is the Key
Positive Leadership with Dr. Dave MartinShow Notes
In this episode, we are traveling down the path of trying to improve our own emotional intelligence. How do we do that? It starts with a desire for self-awareness that comes from our desire to also be spiritually aware - that is, our drive to understand the higher purpose for life outside of ourselves.
I make the argument that if we don't start from a place of our own spiritual awareness, we can't really hope to become self-aware, because we are too consumed with our own needs and passions. People that are driven from a place of extreme self-centeredness don't make good leaders, because they are usually to be too self-absorbed to become self-aware or consider how their emotions affect others. It is only through our desire to seek out a greater good that we can begin to improve our self-awareness.
I finish this episode by discussing some ways we can practically improve our self-awareness. It is the emotional intelligence component that all the other EI components depend on - and if we don't improve our self-awareness, we won't be able to improve any other component of our own emotional intelligence.
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