How do we Define Intelligence?

Intelligence has been defined in many ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional intelligence, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context

Having a Framework to Understand Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence can be defined as ‘Understanding one’s own feelings, empathy for the feelings of others and the regulation of emotion in a way that enhances living.’ The elements of emotional intelligence include self-awareness, self-management, empathy and handling relationships.

Why is Mindset Associated with Emotional Intelligence

Increasingly, we see that there is a link between our mindset and that of our emotions intelligence. Our emotional intelligence gives us an insight into our emotional state and, therefore, enables us to predict are we more likely to be in a “Transformational Mindset” or a “Corrupted Mindset.

Our Success come with Transformed Mindset together with High Emotional Intelligence

The science of emotions has shown that our emotions guide our thinking and behaviour. Positive emotions broaden and build our thinking and cause us to show more engaged behaviours. For example, when we experience positive emotions we tend to show more interest, pay more attention, ask more questions and interact with others in a more open, exploratory fashion. These engaged behaviours are essential for adopting a “Transformational Mindset”.

Conversely, negative emotions narrow and limit our thinking and cause us to show less-engaged behaviours. We tend to show less interest in what’s being said, look for the fault or problem in others’ propositions, and be more defensive when our own propositions are challenged. Negative emotions, therefore, tend to facilitate a more “Corrupt Mindset”. Indeed, mood and emotions are very interlinked with our mindsets.