Your IQ Is Only 20% of Your Success. The Rest Is Emotional. How Do You Feel About That? Part #1

Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

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The notion that there is pure thought, rationality devoid of feeling, is fiction.

Emotional Intelligence

Recent years have seen a surge of research into the biology of personality and emotion. These studies clearly indicate that some of human intelligence and personality is determined by genetics. But this raises two questions: What can you change about yourself? And, why do some intelligent people founder in life, while less intelligent people prosper? The answers reside within a set of abilities called emotional intelligence.

Evolution gave humankind emotions to help people cope with dangerous situations and to act in the face of peril. Modern people retain the emotional system of their cave­-dwelling ancestors, who regularly faced life­and­-death situations. In modern society, those emotions often overwhelm logical thought. In a real sense, each person has two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. The rational mind lets a person ponder and reflect. But the emotional mind is impulsive and powerful. Usually, the two work in harmony, but intense feelings sometimes allow the emotional mind to dominate…