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Kyndell: Emotional intelligence is being aware of not only your emotions, but also the people around you.

Jessica: I enjoy playing tennis. And there are times when maybe I've lost a point and I have to control maybe my frustration or anger. I control by just kind of stopping and calming myself down so I'm ready for the next point, maybe breathing a little bit, and then just moving on to that next point.

Kyndell: I was able to tell that my mother was exhibiting very high levels of emotional intelligence when my father passed away. She was able to set aside her emotions and aid me and my sisters when we needed help and we needed to just talk and just kind of accept what we were feeling. And so she really showed high emotional intelligence then.

Toni: One of my best friends, she can just tell automatically the way I walk if I'm happy or if I'm sad or if it's a crappy day. And it just shows how you have high emotional intelligence. If someone had low emotional intelligence, you could be sitting across the table and someone can be crying or cursing or yelling, and they would have absolutely no idea of what they're meaning or how their day is going.

Kyndell: In high school, I would say I was able to very much observe low emotional intelligence when some of my friends wouldn't really notice days that I was having a little bit more struggles than usual and days that I just wasn't really in the mood for drama and just petty little fights like that. And they would just more be focused on themselves and what they wanted and how they felt.

Monique: I want to be a civil rights attorney and help people with landlord-tenant laws and social security laws and things of that nature. I think it would help to have a high emotional intelligence in that field because you'd have to recognize what people are going through in order to help them. So if you don't see the sadness in someone or someone's fear or maybe someone's desperation, then how can you help them? So I think having a high emotional intelligence would be great for that kind of work.