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Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Academic and Career Excellence is a self-directed learning program to help you identify, understand, learn, and practice emotional skills that are essential to your academic and career success. The purpose of this book is not to lecture you. It is written and designed to assist you in discovering within yourself the skills that you can develop and use to achieve excellence in your life and career.
As someone embarking on an important part of your life, you are the most valuable resource in our society. Our goal is to share information, learning processes, and skills that will guide you in successfully managing the transitions from school to college to career. The learned ability of emotional intelligence is the key to academic success and career excellence. Personal excellence is a self-defined and self-directed process that is unique to each person. As you explore, develop, and learn to apply emotional intelligence skills, remember that emotional learning is an ongoing and continuing process that will always be important to your personal happiness, significant relationships, academic achievement, and career success.