Emotional Intelligence For the longest time, people believed that book smarts were the key to success. They'd throw themselves into books and ignore other areas of their lives. This resulted in masses with high IQ but poor social skills. The high IQ fellas must have sensed that something was wrong with them. At that point, it was clear that success wasn't influenced by your capacity to cram books alone. You need to be able to connect with other human beings, and one of the ways to develop this skill was through the acquisition of emotional intelligence. Thankfully, emotional intelligence isn't an innate trait. This means that anyone that wills may develop this skill and improve their capacity to connect with other human beings. This book delves into the subject of emotional intelligence and explores the techniques that people may utilize to develop various aspects of emotional intelligence. Empath While many people understand what showing empathy means, few understand what it means to be empathic. In fact, there are many people who go their entire lives with this ability without knowing what it is called or why they seem different from everyone else. When you are an empath you are highly affected by the emotions and thoughts of others. People don't even have to say a word, the only have to be in the same room as you, for you to pick up on their emotions and energies. Whether their emotions are positive or negative, empaths have a distinct ability to pick up on it. Frequently, empaths even feel these emotions as if they were their own. Self-Discipline How do you get where you're going from day to day? Is your life a smoothly paved highway where you get everything done on time, you are the person you have always wanted to be with the perfect career, house, body, and bank account? Would you be reading this book if that were true for you? The reason you are here is that you are looking for help to become a more self-disciplined person in need of some strength, encouragement and helpful tools and guidelines to help you reach your goals and create the life of your dreams.