What's Stopping You?: Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential, and How You Can

High-FFs Are Capable of Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence (or high-EQ) is therefore vital if we want to make the move towards achievement motivation. High-FFs need to develop their skills in all the above areas, which seems daunting although is far from impossible. We may be High-FFs, with all the resulting baggage, but we are capable of emotional intelligence, however innate our fears and insecurities. We simply need to learn it. Broken down into constituent parts, each of Goleman’s traits is an attainable goal for the High-FF:

• Ability to self start – self-starting is little more than having direction (see Part Two), knowing how to take that first step (see Part Three) and how to keep going despite the setbacks. High-FFs need help ...