MEPX
Chapter 1 of 10All chapters
  1. 1What it means
  2. 2Noticing
  3. 3Managing emotions
  4. 4Reading other people
  5. 5In conversation
  6. 6What the evidence says
  7. 7At work
  8. 8Stress and resilience
  9. 9Relationships
  10. 10Limits and cautions

Chapter 1 of 10

What it means

Four skills, one label.

The components

Noticing your own emotions, managing them, recognising them in others, and using that understanding in how you act. Those four are the substance behind the term.

  • The concept was popularised far beyond what the research showed.
  • The skills are learnable, which is the useful part of the claim.

What it is not

It is not being agreeable, always calm, or good at reading minds. Suppressing emotion is close to the opposite of what the skills describe.