Benefits of greater emotion granularity

• Trying to avoid negative emotions just to appear youthful or thin or even eternally positive can eventually have a psychological cost.
• Other people can detect a fake smile. Try to make your smile real for yourself.

Imagine that you find yourself getting frustrated and angry with a co-worker. As you assess your feelings, analyze what you're really upset about. 

Are you mad about your co-worker’s actions, or does your anger stem from underlying frustrations and pressure from a boss who has heaped too mu...

Cultivating one's own emotional intelligence is a lengthy process and it is does not happen in an instant so concentrate on self-awareness:

• Listen to your body and don't overwork yourself
• Listen to your heart and connect words with emotions...