If we block or ignore emotions in the workplace, we stifle motivation. What scientists discovered is that we need our emotions our feelings fire up the motor in us that drives energy and creativity. Emotions come before thought and behavior. Because of the brain’s design, all information goes into our emotional center first and then to our thinking center. This means that our power to reason and our feelings are intended to be used together. It is separated from the rational brain (the neocortex) but the two are connected and develop together. Or does it? New research in the 90s confirmed that there is an emotional brain: a place called the limbic system where our emotions originate. N the workplace, success seems to hinge on our intelligence, logical capabilities, and job-related skills, rather than on anything we do with our emotions.
Emotional Intell igence By Deborah Mackin