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There is more to success (and negotiating Brexit) than pure IQ

5th January 2017 Church News.

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Alan Chapman’s article summarised that success requires more than IQ (Intelligence Quotient), which has tended to be the traditional measure of intelligence, ignoring essential behavioural and character elements. We’ve all met people who are academically brilliant and yet are socially and inter-personally inept. And we know, that despite possessing a high IQ rating, success does not necessarily follow.

This is the essential premise of EQ (Emotional Quotient): to be successful requires the effective awareness, control and management of one’s own emotions, and those of other people. EQ embraces two aspects of intelligence:

  • Understanding yourself, your goals, intentions, responses and behaviour.
  • Understanding others, and their feelings.

Emotional intelligence – the five domains

Daniel Goleman, in his 1985 book ‘Emotional Intelligence”, identified the five domains of EQ as:

  1. Knowing your emotions.
  2. Managing your own emotions.
  3. Motivating yourself.
  4. Recognising and understanding other people’s emotions.
  5. Managing relationships.

So when the politicians and bureaucrats get together to carve out the future of Europe over the next few years, using a balanced IQ and EQ approach will serve us all well.