The story starts with Will Smith here as Chris Gardener as the protagonist who has a wife, Linda

and
a child and how their family struggles to survive financially.

There a number of things going on against Chris simultaneously. His rent is due 3 months, he is
unable to get his child into a better daycare, his wife who leaves him after a while, works two shifts
to make ends meet. Despite all that Chris keeps his cool and does his best to impress Jay Twistle, a
lead manager and partner for Dean Witter Reynolds.

Mindfulness: In the movie Chris is highly stressed emotionally and financially hence he does not
makes the best of the decisions.

1) He asks a street singer to look after his expensive bone-density scanners, but the street
singer takes it off and runs away.

2) In the spirit of impressing Jay Twistle he gets on, on a cab with him even though he could
not afford to pay back the taxi driver and eventually commits a crime.

Passive Aggressive:

1) During Chris’s interview at Dean Witter Reynolds the entire panel of high ranked
executives judged his attire and his overall look at the interview.
- They further judge his accolades and seemed very unimpressed and disinterested in
hiring him.

Emotional Intelligence:

1) Chris all during the interview tried his best to shift the odds in his favor.

- Knowing that he will judged from the moment he would enter the room, he opens with
a joke to lighten the mood.
- When the interviewer throws him a difficult question of hiring a man without a shirt,
passive aggressively, Chris again manages to comeback with a quick and humorous
reply, which ultimately humors the entire room and takes the light off his off-dressing
attire and paint stained hands.

Chris manages to get the job because of his high emotional intelligence which otherwise
could have gone totally wrong.