Growing your emotional intelligence means growing your ability to choose what you say and do–because of and in spite of your emotions.

Self-management is your ability to choose what you say and do based on your awareness of your emotions (Bradberry and Greaves). To understand self-mastery, we have to go back over the role of feelings—to give us information and to help us know when to pay attention and what to pay attention to. 

Conversation Overview

• “Emotion” means “to move”
• It is important to feel the whole range of human emotion
• Advantages of self-management
• Aspects of emotional intelligence related to self-mastery
• Growing our self-mastery

References

• Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Bradberry and Greaves
• Daniel Goleman
• Standford Marshmallow Experiment
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

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