Social marketing expert Thomas Power of Ecademy discusses why emotional intelligence is critical to your business development success:

“Emotional wealth is quite hard to understand, because I think people are focused on their financial wealth. Not really their emotional wealth. At least they might not know they’re focused on their emotional wealth.

Whereas with financial wealth they can measure that, they can count that, they can look in that, they can stare at that, they can live in that, they can drive that. Or they can holiday that.

So financial wealth is easy to define. But emotional wealth, I think, is how you feel inside.

It’s the messages that you communicate to other people, even without speaking. It’s the face that you’re transmitting. It’s my view increasingly that the greater your emotional wealth, the easier comes your financial wealth.

And we often meet a lot of people around the world who’ve got a lot of financial wealth. But they’re missing emotional wealth, and then they want to buy it. Because they can afford everything.

But you can’t purchase emotional wealth.”

Check out the video for more insight from Thomas Power on the one kind of wealth you can’t buy.

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