Emotional Intelligence & Empathy
Throughout a few lessons of PSE I have learned that empathy is something that requires practice, and there are numerous different ways of developing my ability to empathize with others: I need to be able to forgive, listen to and embrace someone, and sometimes I need to let go of anger, self-distance and try to look at the problem from different view. I also learned that there are different ways of talking to someone, and I wasn’t doing the best one. Recalling the memories knowing this fact, I have a feeling that many people might have gotten bored or disappointed when telling me their stories because I am not an active talker, more of a passive, constructive talker.
With these new learnings, I reflected on myself and realized that I will become much better at building new and positive relationships with others if I can further develop my emotional intelligence. I will try to think of this lesson whenever I am feeling any form of extreme emotion rising from my heart, and think to myself, “let’s calm down first and try to understand others first”. It will be hard since people often lose themselves when they are in a state of furiousness, depression, etc., however, I know that if I don’t even try, nothing happens.