Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Golemanby Parker on TwosWe need to be in control of ourselves—our appetites, our passions—to do right by others.Being able to put aside ones self-centered focus and impulses has social benefits: it opens the way to empathy, to real listening, to taking another person's perspective.Seeing things from another person's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences.