The next competence is social skills the ability to interact constructively and proactively with other
people.
You'll notice if you're watching an emotionally intelligent person that they interact very well with
their colleagues they are not perhaps the most outgoing of people but they are confident in their relationships.
Proactive in that they will go forward and discuss things rather than waiting for problems to come to
them.
For example.
So social skills are a very important part of emotional intelligence.
Empathy is something that human beings are gifted with.
We naturally empathize with others when we see for example an image of somebody suffering.
We tend to feel a little bit of that suffering we momentarily put ourselves in that position that the
sufferer is in and this seems to be programmed into us by evolution.
I need to be able to consider the other person's point of view stand in their shoes feel where they're
coming from whatever term you like to use.
Everyone makes mistakes from time to time.
It's inevitable and we lack the same much pressure.
With all feeling the pressure to do.
Why is that.
Sure.
I think thanks.
You might expect a day or two when you though everybody is different in how they experience and express
empathy.
We can all do something about improving our levels of empathy towards our fellow human beings.
I should add there's a very small percentage who can't they're not able to do this because of their
mental constitution or some particular difficulty they have in the way they're constructed.
But that is not most of us.
That's a very small percentage possibly around 2 percent of the population.