Emotional IQ?
By Alan Torres
It is said success in life is determined 10% by what happens to us, and 90% by how we react. Emotional IQ is all about the 90%, how we react under stress, social contact and everyday events.
For decades, traditional predictors of success relied heavily upon specific aspects of intelligence, such as logical reasoning, math skills, analogies, verbal skills, etc. But while IQ could predict academic performance to a significant degree, it couldn’t reliably predict success in life. And here is where Emotional IQ comes to play. The concept was made popular by Daniel Goleman and his book Emotional Intelligence.
Studies indicate for various reasons and thanks to a wide range of abilities, people with high emotional intelligence tend to be more successful in life than those with lower EIQ even if their intellectual IQ is average.
So what exactly is Emotional Intelligence?
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