Do you know difference between terms like EI, EC and EQ?

Reading a lot of materials about Emotional Intelligence topic  I noticed that people who write it mix this words a lot, so now I want to clarify it for you:

EI – Emotional Intelligence – is the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn from, manage, understand and explain emotions.

And the main word here is word “potential” . Everyone has this internal potential , we all born with it – but the question each of us should answer and choice to make – how much of this potential you will use. Will you forget about this gift you have and live your life unconsciously, not paying attention to yourself or you will use as much as you have and make your life happy and fulfilled?

Your decision will lead you to your Emotional Competency, shortly– EC.

 Emotional Competence – it’s a combination of skills, based on your initial potential, which can be developed and practiced to make you more emotionally intelligent. It shows how much of your potential you use and how much your skills are developed. You can assess, develop and practice your Emotional Competence.

EQ  - Emotional quotient  - this term comes from IQ. It is used as measurement tool to measure you Emotional Competence.  Actually, till that moment there is no any evaluation tools to really measure your emotional skills. All excited   questionnaires  can only show your opinion about your skills. They can be used as a basis for development, but not for making any decision or conclusion.

I use triangle metaphor for showing connection and difference between all that terms – and as not all potential can be used and not everything from your skills can be measured – that’s why on each stage you will loose a part of the figure – that’s why its not square, but its up to you what kind of triangle to have and how much of the potential to use.

I encourage you to use as much of your potential as possible. And develop your Emotional Intelligence skills.