Emotional intelligence does not begin in knowing how to act or how not to act.
Emotional intelligence begins in noticing what’s happening in you; emotions and sensations. The closer to the onset, the better.
You cannot arrive at the point where you can choose how to act or not to act until you actually notice that the thing that is causing you to act or not to act one way or another is happening.
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