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What Is Emotional Intelligence? +18 Ways to Improve It

By Courtney E. Ackerman — 2020

What’s more important: IQ or emotional intelligence? If you think IQ is more important, you might be surprised at what you’ll learn in this piece. Some argue that it’s more important to our success than cognitive intelligence.

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Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is generally said to include at least three skills: emotional awareness, or the ability to identify and name one’s own emotions; the ability to harness those emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving; and the ability to manage emotions, which...

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Emotional Intelligence (EQ)