Emotional Competence

'What is the use to reach the moon if we cannot overcome the chasm that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important expedition and without it, all others are useless.' (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer and pilot (1900–1944) To recognize emotions and to keep a respectful manner with them is a skill of every single human, which should not be underestimated. Emotional competence plays an important – maybe even the most significant – role on the way to personal development, like Antoine de Saint-Exupery already put it to the point. Phsychotherapists talk about humans to be threatened by alienation from themselves due to a lack of self-perception a…