EQ Or IQ

❓We frequently hear this question:
     Is EQ more important than IQ?
❌Question

This question has been intriguing me, ever since I read Daniel Goleman’s recent Newsletters, since the 25th Anniversary of his book, a couple of months ago.

He has clarified that the chapter in his book was titled ‘CAN EQ be more important than IQ? (operative word being ‘Can’)

A study of the Philosophy behind Six Seconds, recently gave me a fresh perspective to solve this dilemma. (personal musings)It’s not a question of EQ over IQ.

The question is: what have we traditionally emphasised and developed?

Our education has given us hundreds of hours to hone our IQ, and almost none to develop the muscle of EQ.

No wonder then, the current,
across the board emphasis on EQ, to correct this imbalance

In fact, both are correlated and complementary parts of Intelligence, required to navigate Life.

Understanding Feelings as well as Data.

The emphasis for the future is to reimagine, Education, learning, the way we work, careers, employment etc, to provide opportunities to exercise and grow our Emotional Intelligence, for better life outcomes.

Would love to hear your perspectives on the above.