Spirit Of EQ

Eric:  Hi everyone, this is Eric with the  Spirit Of EQ  and today’s podcast is on recognizing patterns. I’m a football fan. I like the OSU Buckeyes. And one big part of football is watching game film. You probably have heard that before. And in game film, you get to see your opponent’s patterns. You might even get to see your own team’s patterns. It’s an important thing to recognize. In today’s episode, we’re talking about recognizing patterns and at the beginning of the podcast I talked about game film and those kinds of things. So I won’t bore you over with sports analogies but tell me a little bit about what recognizing patterns mean as it relates to the work you guys do. Jeff:  When we’re dealing with emotional intelligence and recognizing patterns it’s learning to understand, “if this happens I do that,” or “If I do this to someone else they do that.” So it’s how people respond or react to situations. Because we learn those, it’s kind of ingrained in us. S...

Eric:  Hi everyone, this is Eric Pennington with the  Spirit of EQ , and today’s podcast is on enhancing emotional literacy. The word literacy in many terms is considered to be connected with intelligence in many ways it is. But today what we’re going to do is focusing on how you can enhance what you probably already have and maybe don’t even realize you have. How about a basic definition of emotional literacy. Jeff:  Emotional literacy is to take the emotions that we all feel and to learn to, one, recognize them not only in yourself but in other people. And then dig a little bit deeper and try to figure out what that emotion is telling you. Emotions are there to help you identify what’s going on around you. So when you can do that it will help you interact with the people, it will also help you interact with yourself so that you really understand what’s happening. If you feel a strong emotion and you don’t know what’s causing it, you’re going to be all wou...