Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hansen.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening to Die.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

If you listen to podcasts like ours, you're probably familiar with emotional intelligence.

We refer to it pretty regularly here and it's often listed as an essential trait for

everything from being a desirable romantic partner to having a successful career.

But just knowing that emotional intelligence is a good thing isn't very helpful and when

people talking about it, emotional intelligence is often presented in a way that is both

extremely broad and kind of vague.

So what do we really mean when we say emotional intelligence?

And how can we become more emotionally intelligent over time?

That's what we're going to be focusing on today.

To help me do that, I'm joined by Dr. Rick Hansen, Rick is a clinical psychologist,

the best-selling author, and he's also my dad.

So dad, how are you doing today?

I'm really good.

It's easy for people to feel kind of overwhelmed whenever they face what can feel like a big

task, like becoming more emotionally intelligent.

And even if you understand what emotional intelligence is, it can feel kind of imposing, right?

Or vague and conceptual.

And the best way to learn anything, kind of the meta commentary we're doing during this

episode, is that the best way to learn something that feels overwhelming is just by breaking

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