Emotional Intelligence – The Game Changer!

With the exponential increase in the pace of change due to growing technology, increasing regulations, unpredictable political environment, etc., the challenges people face in day-to-day life are growing. Neuroscience has proven that uncertainty and increased stress can shut down the logical part of our mind as we focus on survival. When we are under pressure, we do or say things we usually don’t. We lose our ability to think straight and the ability to make better decisions. This is because strong emotions like anxiety, anger, and joy trip off our more evolved Human Brain, bypass the high-level thinking associated with it, and allows our primitive brain, ‘the emotional brain’, to take over. Emotions’ power overwhelms rationality. The realization (if at all it happens) happens much later, often when the damage is done. Yet, the pattern continues because most people accept it as a habit or behaviour they are born with or have made failed attempts to change the same. Some people blame it on destiny, some on circumstances, least realizing the power they possess – The Power Within!