Emotional Intelligence -My Financial Career

 

Emotional Intelligence Skills

 

Emotional Quotient (EQ) also known as emotional intelligence is the capacity to recognise, use, and regulate your own emotions. It helps to reduce stress, communicate clearly, sympathise with others, overcome obstacles, and diffuse conflict. A high EQ helps in developing interaction, team stress reduction, conflict resolution and job satisfaction.

The story, ‘My Financial Career’, tells the plight of the narrator, who is the writer himself- Stephan Leacock. The narration is about how he made a mess of a simple bank transaction because he was nervous and afraid of bank officials. The clerk, the little window at the counters, the sight of money, everything made him nervous. The accountant helped him to meet the manager who was a grave, calm man. The narrator managed to open an account and deposit $ 56.The author suddenly realized he needed six dollars for daily expenses. He wrote $56 instead of $6 on the cheaque as he signed it and addressed it to the accountant. The accountant asked him whether he wanted to withdraw the entire sum put after being startled to see all of it.

The writer realised his error, but he did not want to be made fun of. Thus from that day, he never went to any bank, instead he kept his money in his trousers pockets and saved silver dollars in his sock.

The moral of the whole narrative is that if the man’s emotional intelligence skills had been better developed, he would have been able to handle the situation in the bank more effectively.