Use Google To Boost Emotional Intelligence and Stop Hijack
Emotional Hijack or amygdala hijack as it was defined by Daniel Goleman, Author of Emotional Intelligence , occurs when emotions take over your rational brain and rule your actions. When your emotional brain hijacks your rational brain, you react impulsively to a situation instead of responding consciously with purposeful action.
One of the ways to get back in control of your faculties, that emotional intelligence coaches have taught for years, is to shift out of your emotional brain and into your rational brain by solving math problems. By using your math solving brain process you interrupt the runaway emotional process and can think and act clearly.
One of the impulsive things that we may do while we are emotionally hijacked is send an email we later regret. Now Google’s new service called Mail Goggles, offers an way to boost your emotional intelligence before clicking send. It is simple and brilliant and demonstrates one of the ways that emotional intelligence is becoming more and more a part of our new way of being. You can see an example of the process here. Go try it and you may want to bookmark the page to use it anytime you get stuck in reaction.
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret
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