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Education is a crucial process for personal and societal development, fostering critical thinking, promoting equality, and enhancing personal growth. Social entrepreneurs are innovative individuals who address social issues with ambition and a mission for social value, emphasizing human welfare. Emotional intelligence encompasses various skills related to understanding and managing emotions, aiding in effective decision-making and adaptation to environments.

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Education is a crucial process for personal and societal development, fostering critical thinking, promoting equality, and enhancing personal growth. Social entrepreneurs are innovative individuals who address social issues with ambition and a mission for social value, emphasizing human welfare. Emotional intelligence encompasses various skills related to understanding and managing emotions, aiding in effective decision-making and adaptation to environments.

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Education

Topic Sentence: Education is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and
attitudes to help individuals contribute meaningfully to society. It is a fundamental tool
for personal and social development.
Major Support 1: One key aspect of education is that it fosters critical thinking.
(Minor Support) Without critical thinking, people would struggle to solve problems or
make informed decisions.
Major Support 2: Another vital feature of education is that it promotes equality.
(Minor Support) By providing opportunities for all individuals, regardless of their
background, education can break the cycle of poverty and create a more just society.
Major Support 3: Finally, education enhances personal growth.
(Minor Support) For example, learning new skills or gaining new perspectives can lead
to greater self-confidence and adaptability in life.
Concluding Sentence: In conclusion, education is essential for both individual success
and societal progress, making it a cornerstone of a thriving community.
Social Entrepreneurs
Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to social issues.
They are society’s change agents. In other words, they specify social issues to
fight against and then develop solutions. An important characteristic of social
entrepreneurs is having ambition. Without ambition, it would be impossible
for them to undertake tasks such as increasing literacy rates or fighting
poverty. The second characteristic of social entrepreneurs is having a mission,
which means that they do what they do for social value, not for money. Third,
social entrepreneurs put great emphasis on humans. For instance, Indian
social activist Sunitha Krishnan has made it the purpose of her life to help
trafficked girls in India find a safe shelter. As can be seen, social
entrepreneurs try to make the world a better place and deserve our respect
for doing so.
TASK
Use the following link to watch the TED Talk
“What makes a good life?” by Robert J.
Waldinger, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard
Medical School. Then, go over some dictionary
definitions of happiness. Write a definition
paragraph answering the question “What is
happiness?”.
Waldinger, R. J. “What makes a good life? Lessons
from the longest study on happiness.” TED, Nov.
2015,
https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what
_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_st
udy_on_happiness
Write a 250-300 word essay defining
emotional intelligence.

Points: Cognitive abilities, evaluating


emotions, process of decision making
Ability to adapt to environment, emotional
regulation, understanding other people’s
emotions
Emotional intelligence

Theodore Roosevelt once said that, “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care” (Tredgold, 2016). Indeed, humans are

creatures of emotion rather than logic and emotions are critical for us in everyday life, which means that the concept of emotional intelligence is especially

important. Communicating with other people and interpreting their emotions is essential for us to make effective decisions based on this information.

Defining emotional intelligence is a difficult task because this concept includes variety of skills and abilities, while the process of their development is not fully

clear.

As a rule, emotional intelligence definitions include the concept of cognitive abilities of processing information about emotions. In the article by Mayer,

Roberts, and Barsade (2008) we find a notion that emotional intelligence refers to the “ability to carry out accurate reasoning focused on emotions” as well as

the ability to use emotional knowledge to enhance thought (p.507). In other words, this definition refers to evaluating emotions of other people in a certain

way that ultimately helps improve the process of decision making by providing additional information about the environment and situations. However, in

definition provided by Salovey, Mayer, Caruso, and Yoo (2008) indicates that emotional intelligence refers not only to the ability to process information about

emotions of other people, but to perceive, appraise, and express emotion accurately and adaptively. To be exact, this stance on emotional intelligence refers

to a broader spectrum of skills and abilities because it addresses the role of expressing emotions in response to the environment. Overall, the concept of

emotional intelligence does not have a generally accepted definition.

Despite variety of definitions, emotional intelligence is about the ability to effectively adapt to the environment. Nelis, Quoidbach, Mikolajczak, and

Hansenne (2009) state that emotional intelligence has four dimensions, including emotional knowledge, emotional identification, emotional utilization, and

emotional regulation. This definition of emotional intelligence determines this ability as a way people respond to pressure, which is another aspect of

adaptation. While intelligence is defined as the ability to learn and reason about specific information, emotional intelligence refers to the mental ability to

reason about information about emotions (Mayer et al., 2008). The relationship between emotional intelligence and adaptation is important to include in the

definition of this concept because this ability creates the basis for understanding other people’s emotions and express our own emotions.

Consequently, emotional intelligence refers to a broad spectrum of skills and abilities, including identification and understanding of emotions, their

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