Abstract
Emotional intelligence constitutes an important 21st century skill that impacts positively several areas of everyday life. It contains competencies that enhance the ability of other significant skills for self-development. The main purpose of this study is to present the way we can develop and improve our emotional intelligence based on the pyramid model and its nine layers. To achieve this goal, the paper seeks to address the following question: What are the metacognitive and metaemotional skills and strategies that can play a key role in developing, enhancing and improving emotional intelligence?Extensive reference is made to the skills that involved in each layer and have been identified as necessary and should be cultivated by the individual leading gradually to the higher levels of self-actualization and transcendence. Furthermore, we suggest some strategies in each layer that work auxiliary and supportive for the cultivation of the specific skills.Metacognitive and metaemotional skills and strategies are necessary to conquer the levels of emotional intelligence and to apply in a variety of contexts with the aim of developing emotional intelligence and self-improvement.
Highlights
Every day we are overwhelmed by a plethora of emotions, positive and negative ones
Neural plasticity has been observed in the key areas of the brain that are involved in the emotional circuitry, and some of the most impressive evidence for brain plasticity have been observed during emotional learning [19]. All these leads to the conclusion that individuals need to adopt additional abilities/skills and training strategies that are included in each level of the pyramid model (Figure 1) to master the skills of the pyramid, to develop emotional intelligence for the creation of a better self and succeed in self-actualization and transcendence
Emotional intelligence describes a set of abilities and skills to recognize, evaluate and manage the emotions of oneself and of others
Summary
Every day we are overwhelmed by a plethora of emotions, positive and negative ones. We need to be able to pay attention to our emotions, to recognize them, to express them and manage them in the best possible and productive way. Emotional intelligence can be defined as a set of abilities and skills that a person must train and develop gradually and hierarchically to reach emotional self-realization [6]. Neural plasticity has been observed in the key areas of the brain that are involved in the emotional circuitry, and some of the most impressive evidence for brain plasticity have been observed during emotional learning [19] All these leads to the conclusion that individuals need to adopt additional abilities/skills and training strategies that are included in each level of the pyramid model (Figure 1) to master the skills of the pyramid, to develop emotional intelligence for the creation of a better self and succeed in self-actualization and transcendence
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