The Character Lab, a nonprofit organization cofounded in 2016 by psychologist Angela Duckworth, who popularized the term “grit”; Dave Levin, the cofounder of KIPP public charter schools; and Dominic Randolph, head of Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, define social and emotional intelligence as the ability “to understand your own and others’ feelings and emotions and then to use this understanding to inform your decisions and actions.”8 They go on to add that people with high social and emotional intelligence find solutions when they are in conflict with someone, can quickly adapt to
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