Become Mindful of Your Vocabulary Being a strong communicator is an essential element of emotional intelligence. There’s nothing admirable or mature about someone who can keep their cool during stressful situations but refuses to communicate in any shape or form about how they feel to others. Keeping emotionally steady but remaining totally silent is evasive, dishonest, and unproductive. Being able to articulate your feelings to other people (rather than demonstrating your feelings to them) not only helps maintain a steady emotional environment for mature discussion, but also protects you from
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