Your ability to accurately perceive your own emotions in the moment and understand your tendencies across situations describes what Emotional Intelligence Skill?

self awareness

Explanation:

This is a type of self competence skill, emotional intelligence is usually the ability of oneself to Know or recognize his or her mood changes ( emotions) and how he carefully uses this emotions in his behavioral and relationship management.

Self awareness is usually the ability to detect your mood or emotions at a particular point in time and how you can use or apply it in any circumstances or situation. People who usually has high self awareness content usually knows what turns them on and off especially what makes them happy, what brings the bad side of them, what motivate and pushes them to achieve more e.t.c.

Self awareness is not only having an understanding or knowledge of oneself but it but how we recognize, monitor, evaluate our inner world and how we give enough listening ear(attention) to our inner self.

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