4 emotional mistakes that may be hurting your career, and how to fix them
When I conduct workshops with executives, I give them an exercise: Write down as many feeling words as you can in 30 seconds. When those 30 seconds are over, I ask everyone who is impressed with their list to raise their hands. No one has ever raised their hand. The average number of feeling words they're able to produce is five. The vast majority of the audience feels horrified by their inability to name feeling words beyond happy, sad, angry, anxious, and scared. But they quickly gain a sense of relief when they learn that their counterparts (whom they admire and respect) have equally slim emotional vocabularies. The truth is, despite the fact that we throw around the phrase emotional intelligence, most of us don't spend much time actually thinking about our emotions and how those emotions affect how we think and how we behave. If you're like most people, your lack of emotional awareness might be affecting your professional life. Here are four emotional mistakes that