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We've all experienced how emotions can be challenging - and delightful! The trick is to be smart with feelings. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the essential ingredient to do so - a learnable set of practical life skills that make a tremendous difference at work, at school, and at home.
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New! Choose to Change Conference - case stories of EQ in action: Oct 3-4, 2008


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Presentations for October Conference
Please take a look at http://6seconds.org/c2c - you can now download the list of presentations.  As you can see, this is an event where "rea... More


Assent, Dissent, Descent
Recently... I told Emma (8-year-old daughter) she needed to get dressed to go. Instant protest, heel-dragging, power struggle. Yet we were goin... More
EQ on NBC's Today Show
Six Seconds' COO, Joshua Freedman, appeared on NBC's Today Show to discuss how emotional intelligence helps relationships (clip below).  The segm... More
Emotional Intelligence Conference
Choose to Change: Emotional Intelligence in Action Oct 3-4, San Jose CA - Six Seconds' Peer:Peer Conference Choose to Change is a "peer-to-pe... More
New Study Shows Emotional Intelligence Reduces Stress and Predicts 66% of Key Su
Researchers found that healthcare professional high in emotional intelligence are far more effective in a number of key performance areas including st... More
Feeling Finder
How do you really feel?  And what does it mean? Our new "emotoscope" helps you scope out and understand your feelings.  Why? ... More

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Latest Posts from Six Seconds' Blog:

Adaptive Emotions, Anger and Getting a Message Acroos
I feel that emotions are adaptive, and so, that means all emotions. Anger, for example, rises from a sense of injustice, or from a goal being blocked. Anger can be quite adaptive, such as when it fuels people to seek change. The problem is that this message is sometimes heard in ...

Pulse: an emotions organism
Pulse is a live visualisation of the recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs of blogger.com. These emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms and transform a physical shapeshifting object, which was created analogous to Robert Plutchik's psychoevolutionary theory of emotion. You can see this extraordinary piece ...

Cognitive Disenhancement
New drugs may help to enhance people's mental powers . But a study carried out by Pamela Smith, of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and her colleagues suggests a less pharmacological approach can be taken, too. Their work, just published in Psychological Science, argues that simply putting someone ...

Affective Forecasting
A study by my colleague Marc Brackett examined affective forecasting ability and EI. Affective forecasting is the ability to accurately predict how you will feel about some future event. For example, consider how you will feel if a political candidate you support fails to win an election. We then come ...

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