10. Emotional Intelligence Increases Your Self-esteem.

How does it feel to be in charge of where your emotions take you? Great, I tell you. Your asshole ex may never drunk-text into sleeping with them again; you can tell your wife that you don’t like the way she spoke to your mother without breaking perfectly good chinaware. The thing is, humans like it when they’re in control. It makes them happy. And with emotional intelligence, we can continually grow this ability, evolving into the best versions of ourselves.