Emotional Intelligence: Understanding Self and Others

RUNNING HEAD: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Emotional Intelligence
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According to the Johari Window Model, there are four regions in an individual. They are
open area in regards to what a person knows about himself, the blind are that says what is not
known to the person, the hidden area that says only a person knows certain things about himself
unknown to others, and last but not the least an unknown area that says certain things about a
person is unknown to everyone and himself as well. After conveying a self-assessment test and
asking two of my closed ones to do the same and find out what perception they have of me, my
analysis of emotional intelligence has been observed out of which I will be drawing my strengths
and weaknesses (Saxena, 2015).
As per the Johari Window Model, I have noticed that in my open area aspect I am quite
efficient about being conscious and live each day mindfully. I tend to use every experiences of
my life to make myself aware about me and see through things carefully. I possess an observant
nature that makes me want to gather knowledge and feed my curiosity (Khatoon, 2018). This
also help me being aware about what is happening around me in the society. I find it very
important to balance self-awareness with social awareness. It is like one is incomplete without
the other. In times of difficult situation, I believe breaking down is inevitable but what matters is
what I am doing after that. Mind is a very powerful place and it grows what we feed into it. I
prefer to feed it calmness and consciousness in times of problem. Changing the perception really
helps me in simplifying the problem and find a solution quick comparatively. When it comes to
managing relationship with others I prefer to have an ideology of a relationships where all the
associated members associated are growing. A mindset of growth and striving to be better is very
important and I feel I tend to build or engage into relationships with like-minded people. That
not only helps me grow as an individual but also helps the other person associated in the
relationship to grow as well. Whenever any crisis or conflict occurs in relationships, I

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communicate with the other person and work as team on finding ways how I can solve the
problem rather than cribbing about the problem itself.
In blind area, my closed ones thinks that I am aware about myself and take
responsibilities of my action quite well. I motive them and encourage them build strong self-
esteem and strive to be better. They perceive me as a person who is aware about themselves
along with whatever is happening around the society. After undertaking the emotional
intelligence test , what they perceive of me says that I am quite good at managing myself but one
things was unknown to me that they think I speak in support of them rather my own opinion.
Well, that was totally unknown to me but after the test, I will definitely see thorough it. When it
comes to relationship management, they think that I am quite good at maintain and building new
relations. Networking with others is a very tactful agenda that I know more or less efficiently
(Hamzah et al, 2016).
In hidden area, it was observed that others do not know I support themselves because I
agree to them and not because I do not have my own opinion. I have the same opinion as them
and if any of the opinion contradicts then I speak that. I kind of lack here in presenting my
opinions thoroughly and in a more organized way so that it does not seem that I am only
agreeing to others and that is my opinion because I want to please others. I do like to motivate
and support others but if anything wrong of my perception happens then I will obviously discard
it (Hasan, 2017).
In the unknown are, I do not know if I lack somewhere or be a little bit unmanageable
when it comes to being socially aware. I believe every individual have perceptions and that is
what makes everyone human. Nobody is perfect and moreover perfectionism might be a myth or
matter of perception as well. That is unknown to be and everyone else out there as well.