"Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it."
~ Lou Holtz

Quotes

Train yourself to tolerate others' opinion. It's just as hard for them to tolerate yours.
~ unknown author

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
~ Michelangelo

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.
~ Karen Ravn

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
~ Pamela Vaull Starr

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
~ Fitzhugh Dodson

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
~Les Brown

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
~ Ringo Starr

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
~ Epictetus

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
~ Scott Hamilton quotes

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence, also called EI and often measured as an Emotional Intelligence Quotient or EQ, describes an ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups.

Defining emotional intelligence
The distinction between intelligence and knowledge in the area of cognition (i.e. IQ) is very clear, where generally, psychological research demonstrates that IQ is a reliable measure of cognitive capacity, and is stable over time. In the area of emotion (i.e. EQ) the distinction between intelligence and knowledge is murky. Current definitions of EQ are inconsistent about what it measures: some (such as Bradberry and Greave 2005) say that EQ is dynamic, and can be learned or increased; whereas others (such as Mayer) say that EQ is stable, and cannot be increased.

Measures of Emotional Intelligence
Some researchers believe EI is a cognitive ability just as is IQ (eg, Mayer & Salovey, 2000), while others believe it is a combination of perceived abilities and traits (e.g., Schutte et al. 1998). These opposing views have inspired two separate domains of inventories – ability-based measures, which focus on maximal performance, and mixed-model measures, which focus on typical performance (Mayer, Salovey, & Caruso, 2000; Petrides & Furnham, 2000).

Self-report measures of EI

The Emotional Intelligence Appraisal measures:

# Personal competence, including:
- Self-Awareness: Recognizing and understanding your emotions in the moment, as well as your tendencies across time and situation.
- Self-Management: Using awareness of emotions to manage response to different situations and people.

# Social competence, including:
- Social Awareness: Understanding the perspectives of other people including their motivations, their emotions, and the meaning of what they do and say.
- Relationship Management: Using awareness of one's own emotions and the emotions of others to manage relationships to a successful outcome.

Evidence is Lacking for the Extreme Claims for the Predictive Power of Emotional Intelligence

It has been argued that Goleman has made unproven claims for the power of emotional intelligence to predict life and work skill:

" ... a person's IQ predicts only a small part of career performance—ranging from 4 to 20 percent. But recent studies have shown that emotional intelligence predicts about 80 percent of a person's success in life". Similarly, in 1998 Goleman claimed that “IQ alone at best leaves 75 percent of job success unexplained, and at worst 96 percent", and he claimed that "more than 80 percent of general competencies that set apart superior from average performers depend on emotional intelligence".
Goleman derived his first claim, that IQ explains less than 75% of job success, ... ... the authors concluded that "between 75% and 96% of the variance in real-world criteria such as job performance cannot be accounted for by individual differences in intelligence test scores". Goleman changed the phrasing of the authors' conclusion slightly, turning their phrase "real-world criteria such as job performance" into the phrases "career performance", and "job success". This is a small change but it alters the meaning significantly, making job/career success the sole outcome not predicted by IQ... Equally problematic, the original 75%-96% success prediction percentages were not correlations obtained from a specific empirical study: the 75%-96% range was a review judgment of the 1995 authors.
Goleman derived his second claim, that emotional intelligence explains more than 80% of success in life or, alternatively, more than 80% of job competencies that distinguish superior employees, from an unpublished privately commissioned study. This study determined that twenty-one key job competencies existed, and Goleman decided that only three (analytical thinking, conceptual thinking, and technical expertise) were not emotional intelligence competencies. Goleman concluded that because he judged 18 of 21 job competencies to be EI competencies, and, because 18 equals 85.7% of 21, thus emotional intelligence explained 85.7%, or more than 80% of life success or more than 80% of job skill competencies of superior workers. These conclusions were mistaken.
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