reasonemotion wrote:I beg to differ [that intellect is more important?] [...] I see this as EQ gets you through life vs IQ gets you through school.
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How, in your view, would emotional intelligence thus be championing or supporting experience, or giving it a boost towards winning the contest? Are you contending that everything about EI would be learned rather than innate? Or like Daniel Goleman, that people are born with broad EI conceptions that facilitate their acquiring of narrower, emotional competencies, with the latter capabilities being what are learned and enhanced through practice?
IF half innate and half acquired / developed, it's not clear that this would distinguish emotional intelligence much from divisions of understanding that would sort, organize, and identify sensory input; enable work skills and knowledge; and support language, reflective thought, and abstract reasoning. Since each specialized area would seem to need an innate "start-up" kit or operating template, or a single collective one serving the bunch, for virgin processing and organizing of data. Thenceforth modifying / augmenting themselves over time with those received / encountered world and social related events; and dealing with the growing relationships discerned and theorized about in a vast memory accumulation, and further invented strategies serving this or that purpose.