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Emotional Intelligence
Part of 2/21

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Emotions are important; they help us learn new things understand others and push us to take action.
Do our emotions hold us back? Would we do better if our emotions were removed and we became unfeeling logical creatures?
In fact emotions are vital to us as they provide us with advantages that help us to lead fulfilled lives.
One such advantage is the way emotions help us learn from our memories.
When our brain stores experiences it doesn’t just collect facts. It also records our feelings and these feelings help us to learn from our experiences. For example if a little boy touches a hot stove he will experience intense pain. The thought of touching another stove in the future will carry with it the memory of that searing pain. Thus his emotions will hopefully keep him from doing it again.
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