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6 Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence
By
Linda Mintle
Emotional intelligence (EI) involves your ability to recognize, understand and mange your emotions. It is a type of intelligence you want to grow in order to become more interpersonally effective. It helps you in all relationships. When you use your emotional intelligence, you are able to impact other people in positive ways. People also like to be…
Is Gossip Good?
By
Linda Mintle
The title of an article in The Atlantic caught my eye a few weeks ago, “Gossiping is good?” When I read the title I immediately thought of the biblical admonition to not gossip. Verses like, “A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.”(Proverbs 16:28) came to mind. Also, the verse in Romans tell…
Can an Introvert and Extrovert Get Along?
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Linda Mintle
My boss is an introvert. I am an extrovert. We are very different in our approaches to problems and life. For example, when there is conflict, I want to work it out immediately. I want to turn up the volume on the issue and get it resolved relationally. My introvert boss wants to turn down the volume…
Recognizing a Sociopath
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Linda Mintle
Some of you may remember Man of the Year, model citizen John Gacey. You can find a picture of him with then First Lady, Rosalynn Carter. He was well liked by his community. What people didn’t know about him was that he murdered 32 young men and buried most of them under the crawl space…
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