THE FUSE

Emotionally intelligent people are self-aware, which means they quickly take responsibility for a mistake. Typically, they do not wait until they get caught. If an error is brought to their attention, they do not immediately deflect and shift the blame by playing the victim. They reflect—and this reflection is not superficial, it is deep. They think about what led them to make this mistake, how it impacted the people around them, and how to repair things and make them right.