Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

(Patricia Holt)

Article Review by: Ayu Nuradi

     Talking about emotional intelligence reminds me of one of television program, Nanny 911, which a nanny try to control children’s bad behavior . This behavior surprises me even makes me wonder how they can act in an emotional way. All I know about kids are cute and behaved as their age. But, nowadays, children are more vulnerable to anger, depression, and anxiety. By reading the tittle only, Emotional Intelligence, I think I can know more why children’s behavior today prone to emotional behavior.

     The article tittled Emotional Intelligence explains us that emotional behavior in someone’s future life can be seen in early year when someone is in childhood and it has impact on someone’s success in life. It can be concluded by Goleman’s experiment towards four-year-old children who were faced by two choices when a man gave them a marshmallow: eating it right away or wait for the man to come back from an errand. A dozen years later with the same children, those who had resisted eating the marshmallow were more socially competent than the others. But, those who grabbed the marshmellow were more seen as shying away from social contacts.

     It’s all because of a lone neuron in the brain that bypasses the neocortex—the area of the brain where rational decisions are made—and goes straight to the amygdala, or emotional center of the brain. The more that emotional memories involving temper piles up in early adolescence, the more the amygdala can hijack the rest of the brain. But the amygdala takes a long time to mature, around fifteen or sixteen years, which means that emotional intelligence can be taught at home and, especially, at school.

     In this article, the writer tried to share informations about why an overreact occurs on someone behavior by Goleman’s experiment. He also tried to let us know more about how brain has a big influence towards emotional intelligence.

     Goleman’s experience has given us a bright view of emotional intelligence. We know that emotional intelligence depends on what kind of behavior we can fill to children’s mind by doing good actions in daily life. It’s important because it needs a long time for amygdala to mature, so there is still enough time for parents to be a good model of good behavior for their children’s bright future.

     It’s not about the marshmallow, but it’s more to the way how a children decided to act according to just what they felt and thought in a real pure thinking of children or natural process.

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