High IQ is not enough,
We happen to witness on a daily basis that there are some persons who despite enjoying high IQ levels can not make it through the top of the career ladder despite being intelligent with the pace he should, and we also may happen to see there are other persons who are not much intelligent still they make it through the top of the career ladder. Intelligence is a superb quality but it alone can not do the whole thing, alongside it, consistency and hard work are must-haves. High IQ can get you through logics, numbers efficiently but it alone is not essential, it is something which is more towards your own self but being social animals, we need to work with other people in different settings, so to thrive in those settings, one has to have another super quality and that is, Emotional Intelligence.
Emotional Intelligence refers to the ability to understand our emotions and utilize them for positive purposes. This ability goes side by side IQ. EI is more about people around us, while IQ is focussed more towards our own selves. High EI makes us an effective People Person. Talking about leadership. An effective leader exhibits high emotional intelligence. Understanding one’s own emotions, identifying the type of emotion at a specific time we’re experiencing, and then taking an appropriate pause to respond positively to the situation in hand make us a loveable, beneficial, and successful person.
There are many perks attributed to good emotional intelligence and those may be like, stress management, anxiety/depression management, building strong relationships, creating harmony among the teams, becoming an effective communicator and effective communication makes the good leader. If a conflict crops up before you, you have the ability to defuse the tension and thus resolving the conflict using his emotional intelligence.
As is said earlier, most of your success is attributed to emotional intelligence rather than intelligence quotient, to have high emotional intelligence should be the key concern when thinking of building your worth among the masses.
We think the brain is our control centre and often happen to ignore the significance of the heart or you may see the feelings or emotional part of ourselves. Our emotions drive our actions. With negative emotions, we can give off negative actions and with positive emotions, we can give off positive actions. So, we can conclude, emotions play an undeniable role in our overall health and performance and thus a determining factor in our career success. We need to take both head and heart together and in an optimum balance to perform well and excel in our endeavors i-e, both IQ and EQ are essential to success recipe. High EQ lets us negotiate well, manipulate well, work around problems even diplomatically wherever needed, it also helps us build trust among others and increase our inner strength too.
How do all these things happen. Through emotional intelligence, one becomes self aware of one’s emotions, identifies them and starts to control and maneuver them i-e, self regulation. On the next stage, one becomes socially aware as to how other people are thinking, what problems they are facing, how my actions are impacting and can impact for the betterment of them.
One of the core features of high EQ is the development of empathy which is to say, putting oneself in someone’s shoes, understanding his situation and connecting with him on his level thus developing better rapport with him. High HQ makes oneself aware of one’s strengths and weaknesses and keeps one motivated to improve on self development on a consistent basis and thus becoming a great addition to some organization, for instance.
In this psychologically advanced world, we now have tools to have an idea of as to how much emotionally intelligent we are through different tools, link to one of which I am sharing here so that you may also take that test and have an air of your EQ level, if it’s good, then Congratulations and keep up. If the result is Low EQ, you really need to improve on that by putting consistent efforts to take charge of your emotions and so a good harvest can be reaped.
