How to be emotionally intelligent: Talk to yourself

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We often struggle with our emotional ups and downs, during a deadline, while taking on a project, confronting the boss, the partner, in all sorts of life situations. And the only way to better at it is to either mess up seven times and learn seven times or make your emotions your ally.

To be emotionally intelligent is to make your emotions your ally, to be aware of the mood…