Both emotional intelligence and intellectual intelligence are very important to the development of an undergraduate, but they contribute in different ways.
According to Daniel Goleman, who wrote an influential book on emotional intelligence, emotional intelligence consists of five qualities: self-awareness, mood management, self-motivation, impulse control and interpersonal skills. Among theses qualities, self-motivation is the critical quality for an undergraduate. Anyone cannot like all the courses in the university. It is self-motivation that makes him/her keep passion on the modules which he/she does not like. What is more, it is self-motivation that makes him/her get a good result. Secondly, good mood management plays an important role in coping with stress which comes from exams, assignments, relationship with others and after-class activities. A student with good mood management will keep an optimistic attitude to stress and handle properly so that stress can motivate him/her rather than ruin him/her. Thirdly, interpersonal skills helps a student get well with his/her classmates and teachers and make a lot of friends. Therefore, they can study collaboratively, which is more efficient than studying alone. In addition, he/she will get CCA much more easily as he/she can get into the activity group easily.
Respectively, according to the report “Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns” of APA in1955, intellectual intelligence was defined as the ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, to overcome obstacles by taking thought. From this definition, there is no doubt that it contributes to the academic issues of an undergraduate as the essence of intelligence is the way of thinking. Just like in mathematics, it requires the student to think logically and creatively. Without intellectual intelligence, students cannot do this job well; even emotional intelligence does not work. Another important aspect is learning through experience, everyone has no competence besides eating and drinking when he/she was born. Learning from experience gives people the power to make progress; it is the same to the undergraduate.
In conclusion, both emotional intelligence and intellectual intelligence play important roles in the development of the undergraduate, but in different aspects.
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Thanks for your effort here. I like the way this starts with the quote from Goleman, and I appreciate the initial focus on motivation. However, I feel you should have stayed on that topic. Why move on to mood management when you haven't completely exhausted the discussion of the importance of motivation? For instance, you state as follows:
"What is more, it is self-motivation that makes him/her get a good result." But you don't explain. Do you see how you could have made this discussion more in-depth?
Thanks for your hard work!
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I should learn from you the way you make the citations.
But in my opinion it is become a bit extra when you started the second citation. the way you illustrate become repeated. somemore,"Without intellectual intelligence, students cannot do this job well; even emotional intelligence does not work. " I actually get confused. Maybe you want to rephrase.
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