how emotions impact an individual

Objective of the Video

To learn how emotions impact an individual  

Key Learnings from the Video

According to Winston Churchill:

To improve is to change,

To be perfect is to have change often.

1. Positive Emotions

Positive emotions help you to:

a. Survive

Golden statement:

Wear your mask first and then help others.

It means developing the self-care emotion to take care of yourself and others.

This helps you to develop the emotion of care which is important for your survival.

b. Thrive

Whether you are a student or a working professional you always have a competitive spirit. This not only helps you to be focused but also be ethical in your actions.

This releases happy emotions in your brain and it always keeps you motivated to achieve goals. You should pay attention to your motivation points.

c. Avoid danger

For example:

As a maintenance officer, if you smell something burning in your office and find fire in transformer cables, you will switch off the power supply of the office and save it from a major disaster.

In this case, your sense of smell helped you in avoiding a big danger.

d. Allow other people to understand you and vice-versa

For example:

At the time of performance appraisal discussion with your employees, you get aware of the following things: 

Connection of employee with his/her job

Challenges employee faces in performing his/her job

Competitive emotion of employee

Fear of losing a job due to low performance

Satisfaction emotion of employee

Expectations of the employer from the employee

In this case, the discussion helps employers and employees to understand each other and develop a strong connection between them.

This spreads positive emotions in the entire office and creates a positive environment.

2. Negative Emotions

The different types of negative emotions are:

a. Stress

For example:

As a maintenance officer, you may have the stress of the safety of your employees.

You may have faced anxiety or stress when you are not aware of how to deal with a difficult situation like an accidental fire in the office premises.

b. Health issues

You may face the following health issues due to negative emotions:

Weight loss due to sadness

Headache due to anxiety

Sleeplessness due to anger

High blood pressure

Chances of heart attack

Negative emotions cause the following adverse impact on your daily work life and make forces you to take actions that portray you as weak:

You feel negative about everything.

You are not able to keep your views in front of others with positive intent.

Many times, negative emotions alert you and motivate you to change yourself and others.

Golden statement:

Constant positivity is a form of avoidance,

It is okay to have negative emotions.

For example:

i. Good performance not recognised

Your immediate boss never recognises your efforts, capabilities and performance.

This generates a negative emotion in you but it will also motivate you to change.

It means you will do the work for the process improvement to get noticed by others.

ii. Sales meeting does not get well

If you are sad due to a bad sales meeting, this negative emotion of sadness will motivate you to prepare well for the next sales meeting.

Key Outcomes of the Video

Consider negative emotion as an opportunity to motivate you

Use negative emotion to bring positive changes in your actions