“Emotional intelligence is a way of recognising, understanding and choosing how we think, feel and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It defines how and what we learn, it allows us to set priorities, it derives many of our daily actions.”

“Like all learning the development of emotional intelligence comes from building new patterns in the brain. These new patterns develop when we have experiences that we can link to background knowledge. The learning is integrated by experiencing cause and effect and through practice.”

“In the last decade or so science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life including family relationships.”

Navigating our lives, it is our fears and envies, our rage and depressions, worries and anxieties that steer us on day to day life. Most academically brilliant are vulnerable to being undone by unruly emotions.