Emotional Awareness

Emotional Awareness is a unique growth area because of its interdependent relationship to the other areas. It forms the base of the stack because it inherently raises all other areas simultaneously. I defined it as emotional awareness vs. intelligence because it is only applied through the other three growth areas and doesn't truly exist on its own. Emotional Awareness is knowledge, understanding, comprehension of others reality and an ability to step outside your own perspective and into (as much as it's actually possible) someone else's.

The premise behind Emotional Awareness being a complete disc vs. an individual wedge is that Emotional Awareness equally affects all three core growth areas in nearly all cases. Additionally, a person can strengthen their emotional awareness while also focusing on any other core growth area. So, it's a natural conduit to apply progress from area to the next.

So how does Emotional Awareness relate to the three core growth areas?

Intelligence | A key trait of Emotional Awareness is an increased ability to recognize the strengths of others. As we do this, we open up infinitely more avenues to learn from those around us. Having more experts and a broader experience set to learn from provides distinct advantages to increase informational and skill-based intelligence.

Communication | As you become more aware of your personal feelings and biases, as well as the emotions and environmental impact on those around you, it becomes easier to relate to others. This means you can better explain and connect concepts and information to things that matter to others around you. This in turn makes you a more effective communicator, whether writing or speaking.

Drive | When we do something to directly benefit ourselves we are often highly motivated. But doing something because you recognize the benefits and impacts on those around you is a key trait of a higher Emotionally Aware individual. It also typically makes people more driven because now you feel a responsibility not to let those invested in you down.