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Name: Search Inside Yourself
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Author: Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan

The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

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What’s in it for me? Understand the emotions of yourself and others.

Most of us strive to get a good education, thinking that it’s the only way to land a well-paying job. But one of the most important determinants of professional success is actually emotional intelligence, which you can learn outside of school.

These blinks will show you how to increase your emotional intelligence and guide you through the steps to becoming a better leader, coworker or partner. They will also reveal how mindfulness can improve your happiness.

The basic principle behind the methodology is a three-step approach: You must first develop your capacity to direct your attention as you see fit, and here mindfulness meditation is very useful. With this improved attention, you can get a better understanding of your own cognitive and emotional processes, increasing your self-knowledge. Finally, building on this foundation, you can establish good mental habits for yourself that will increase your happiness and effectiveness.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

the different types of emotional intelligence;
how meditation benefits your happiness; and
that empathy can save your relationships.

Emotional intelligence is one of many different types of intelligence.

What does intelligence mean to you? A high IQ? Brilliant linguistic skills? What about musical abilities?

Howard Gardner, a developmental psychologist at Harvard, was the first to propose a theory of multiple intelligences. He argued that a child who lacked skills in math, but showed talent in languages or the arts, for example, should still be considered intelligent.

To illustrate his argument, Gardner came up with a list of different types of intelligence, which includes among other items intrapersonal intelligence and interpersonal intelligence. Having intrapersonal intelligence means being aware of your own inner feelings, values and goals. Interpersonal intelligence, on the other hand, involves awareness of the feelings, emotions and motivations of others.

Intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence come together to form emotional intelligence, which is the ability to understand the feelings and emotions of yourself and others and the ability to use that knowledge to guide your actions and thoughts.

The author of the book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, grouped emotional intelligence into five categories:

Self-awareness is your knowledge about your internal state and about your preferences, resources and intuition.
Self-regulation is the ability to control your impulses, resources and state of mind.
Motivation is the emotional ability to steer yourself toward your goals.
Empathy is your awareness of others’ feelings, needs and concerns.
And the final category is social skills: your ability to influence others.

So what are the benefits of emotional intelligence?

Well, let’s take a look at Bill Duane, an engineering manager, and how he used emotional-intelligence training to improve his life.

Through emotional-intelligence training, Duane realized that he needed more time for himself and reduced his workdays to four a week. With one less day of work, he found the time to focus more on his well-being, and became motivated to accomplish more while doing less. He became a better listener, learned how to regulate his temper and to understand situations from different perspectives. As a result, Duane became a more effective manager, not only improving his life, but also the lives of those who worked for him.

So now you know what emotional intelligence is. Let’s press on to see exactly how useful it can be in your day-to-day life.

With practice, emotional intelligence can drastically improve your work performance.

Now that you know what emotional intelligence is, the next step is to learn how it can help you – and how it can be improved.

One advantage of developing your emotional intelligence is that it can lead to better work performance. For example, a higher level of motivation – one of the five categories of emotional intelligence – increases optimism, which in turn will improve your performance at work, as shown by a study conducted in the 1980s by American psychologist Martin Seligman. He found that, in their first year of sales, optimistic insurance agents outperformed their pessimistic colleagues by 8 percent and by 31 percent the following year. The study demonstrates that emotional competencies such as optimism can have a considerable effect on employee performance.

Meditation improves concentration, relaxation and alertness, and it makes us happier.

Meditation might seem like something magical, but it’s really nothing more than a mental workout. Just as the many training machines at the gym are designed to exercise different muscles, so different types of meditation are designed to exercise different parts of your mind.

The best mental training for developing emotional intelligence is called mindful meditation, or just mindfulness. It improves our concentration by training both our attention and meta attention.

Developing a deeper sense of self-awareness can help you master your emotions.

Mingyur Rinpoche, a Buddhist teacher, once said that the moment you see a raging river, you’re already rising above it. Similarly, when you can see an emotion, you’ve already ceased to be in the throes of it.

To overcome your emotions, you need self-awareness; once you become more self-aware, you’ll be better able to become successful.

Intangible motivators like a shared purpose sustain employee motivation better than external rewards.

Many executives believe that external rewards – such as money or perks – are the best motivators of high performances in the workplace.

But actually, intangible motivators can be even more effective at boosting success and profits than concrete ones.

Empathy is useful in both personal and professional relationships.

If you want to become skilled at drawing, you need to practice it. The same rule applies to improving your empathy, a type of emotional intelligence with many benefits.

Empathizing with others and showing them kindness not only makes them feel understood; it also builds trust.

Experiencing love from others could lead to our becoming better leaders.

Have you ever been told that, to get by in life, you need to be selfish and take things for yourself?

Well, ignore that, because nothing could be further from the truth – especially if you plan on becoming an effective leader.

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Search Inside Yourself (2012) teaches how the power of emotional intelligence and mindfulness can be harnessed to thrive both personally and professionally. Tan’s teachings are based on years of research and afford you the opportunity to improve your happiness, creativity and productivity.

Wer Search Inside Yourself lesen sollte

Professionals who want to become better at their job
Individuals who want to start a sustained mindfulness practice
Those having trouble understanding their emotions

Über den Autor

Chade-Meng Tan, who spent years promoting mindfulness at Google, is an award-winning engineer, Nobel Prize nominee and founder of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. In 2010, he delivered a TED talk on compassion at the United Nations. In 2013, he was invited to give a speech on kindness at The White House.

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