Emotional intelligence involves the ability to

understand and control your own emotions as well as understanding the emotions of others.

Explanation:

Explanation:

...recognize, understand, and control the emotions and where they are coming from. It means not acting impulsively but in the rank of the event. It also means that you are not closed-back, not opening up, but being sincere with your feelings and expressing them analytically.

Those who have good emotional intelligence also tend to read well other people’s emotions and also react to them as it is expected and appropriate. This includes being compassionate and rationalizing other’s emotions, but not indulging other’s feelings despite your own.