In this article I want to discuss emotional intelligence (EI) and how it is linked to any personal development of yours as it will surely increase with even a small effort of yours to develop personally. The conclusions I made here are based on my own experience and the literature that covered this topic and topics around our psychology.
What is EI and EQ?
EI is emotional intelligence and EQ is an emotional quotient EI is measured with. As defined by Wikipedia EI is "the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions." The higher your EQ is the more you are able to recognize and handle your own emotions and the emotions of other people. You can read more on the process of measurement on Wikipedia.
Is There a Connection Between Your IQ and EQ?
There is a clear linkage between your EQ (emotional quotient) and your IQ (Intelligence quotient).
Many researchers portray it as two separate entities as you can see on the picture below, but the thing is that the higher your IQ is, the easier it is for you to recognize emotions and patterns in your own head and in the lives of other people (look up for the information on this ability in the article of Jacob Nielsen about UX https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/ai-uncertainty-ux).
I suppose some special cases of really high IQs that focus a person differently might not recognize this connection well, but this is purely a hypothesis.
So the EQ is not a pure ability of your heart, it has thus nothing to do with your overall ability to love.
Can IQ exists separately from EQ?
In the case of narcissistic and sociopathic personalities the IQ will hypothetically not be connected to EQ as strongly, as these personality disorders occur as the result of big emotional trauma in very early childhood, but the overall ability to learn will not necessarily be afflicted by that. (you can learn more about these types on youtube.com). These people have difficulties recognizing their own personalities and come around the world manipulating it emotionally more than recognizing.
So if you are any of these types your EI will be unchangeable.
There are many other types of personalties where EI will be irrelevant such as autistic personalities.
Is EQ a static parameter?
In accordance with Wikipedia scientists cannot agree about it. As I concern I can conclude that you can grow your Emotional Intelligence (EI) generally irrespecyively of the EQ it is measured with.
As any other measurement tool, EQ is genealistic and has to operate based on the well chosen amount of parameters, so it might be redundant how much you can grow for that type of a test. As I did not take this test I cannot conclude in this article.
But as a human devoid of any personal disorder your life is an ever-learning experience in social and emotional ways. You can work on your personality, emotional trauma and thinking patterns, all of it will eventually make your emotional intelligence (EI) stronger.
In my life I for instance learnt to see and understand humans with toxic behaviours and personality disorders. These factors will increase my emotional intelligence when working with those people as I now have more tools to make it function and safeguard my own emotions and thinking patterns from that. I have other examples too but these one is quite striking and understandable to many others.
I wrote a number of articles that might help you embrace your personality and through that increase your Emotional Intelligence (EI).
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