Getting along better with other people

You do your best and it doesn’t work. That’s painful. Other people have learned the skills needed to have good friends, good love, and a family. You can too. 

Here are four EQ skills you may not have had a chance to learn . . . yet. The book and exercises can help. Our society doesn’t teach this stuff.

Sharing your feelings with people, and allowing them to share theirs with you, builds bonds that last. Sounds simple, but there is an art to it that you can learn.  Emotional Intelligence for a Divided World  and the exercises that accompany it can help.

When you can read people, you can connect with them.   The book and exercises  can give you practical ways to unlock the mystery of other people’s feelings. 

But it’s not just their feelings. Your feelings matter too, and in practical ways that may surprise you. For example, some people will be good for you to have in your life. Others may not be right for you. And still others may even harm you. Your emotions when you're with these people can help you know who’s who. Your emotions can also help you know what to do when you are with people you want in your life. Often, people who have trouble connecting haven’t learned how to understand their own feelings, and as a result, are at a loss how to act.  Knowing your feelings and how to use them will help you build the relationships you want. 

If you want people to like you, first you have to like yourself.  Some people find that hard to do. Maybe they got the wrong messages growing up. Maybe they’ve made some mistakes, because they didn’t know how to do the "feelings" part. Emotional Intelligence for a Divided World and the exercises that go with it will show you how to find what is valuable in yourself. Then others will see it too.