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A graphic showing emotions in a wheel with intense emotions (e.g. terror, grief, ecstasy) in the centre, and more subtle emotions (serenity, boredom, distraction) on the outside

How to use an emotion wheel to build your emotional intelligence

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Reading Time: 6 minutesAn emotion wheel is a great visual aid to help us identify how we’re feeling, and also to expand our emotional vocabulary. Being able to identify emotions is a key building block of emotional intelligence. According to PositivePsychology.com, there are around 34,000 human emotions (I’ve collected about a thousand of them in this post). How […]

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Emotions list

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Reading Time: 4 minutesEmotional intelligence (EQ) is widely recognised as a key factor for leadership effectiveness. Having a rich “emotions” vocabulary is a great way to build your EQ. The emotions list below captures some of the most common words used in English for pleasant and unpleasant emotions. Are there emotions on these lists that you haven’t heard

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