Re: emotional intelligence
Rubix pretty much covered most everything I was about to say.
Wrong. Emotional intelligence is certainly not as narrow as you make it sound. Logos refers to IQ, but ethos and pathos are all related to EQ, and it is important to a person in order to function normally in society, as well as just being able to talk to other people.
As for being successful, there's never a concrete way to say whether or not someone will be or not. Perhaps someone with only average IQ/EQ has a revolutionary idea, or perhaps someone is just lucky and pushes himself/herself to the top. However, the general trend is that people with at least average EQ or IQ and an incredible measure of the other one do really well in real life.
The rest of this is a crosspost from KBO:
I think you guys have some misconceptions. There are some points in here that are valid, most definitely, but many of the ideas you have brought forth are actually not true.
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is more important than IQ, but only in a practical sense. Overall, however, the most important thing is balance. This is true.
However, it is impossible to assign percentages like you have here. 80%/20% might be applicable to a janitor, but for a physicist, you would obviously need to have much more IQ. It's all conditional. Part of EQ/IQ is being able to figure out how much EQ/IQ you actually need for each circumstance and being able to adequately adjust to your surroundings.
So while your general concept is correct, you're misguided about the importance of each.
This is a load of bull. You're only trying to make excuses for yourself.
First of all, school has no influence over a person's EQ/IQ level. School only enters information into our brains, but computing power resides in the person itself and nothing else. In fact, your EQ/IQ level is mostly determined by genes and interaction at home. The fact that you blame the school for this is completely inaccurate.
However, as a senior, I'm sure you indeed have taken a few courses that in fact do "limit your creativity." However, these courses are only found in the upper levels, and are debatable. From K-8, there should be almost no dispute that the education is at the very least adequate enough to endorse creativity while learning new concepts. High school, once again, is debatable.
The problem with the education system in this country is not that it limits your creativity. In fact, we are actually pretty well off. We have tons of resources. The only problem is that these resources are being wasted, and the system is not personalized enough. There's actually nothing wrong with the teaching. The teaching is fine.
On that note, enough about the education system. That's a completely different topic altogether.
Rubix pretty much covered most everything I was about to say.
Wrong. Emotional intelligence is certainly not as narrow as you make it sound. Logos refers to IQ, but ethos and pathos are all related to EQ, and it is important to a person in order to function normally in society, as well as just being able to talk to other people.
As for being successful, there's never a concrete way to say whether or not someone will be or not. Perhaps someone with only average IQ/EQ has a revolutionary idea, or perhaps someone is just lucky and pushes himself/herself to the top. However, the general trend is that people with at least average EQ or IQ and an incredible measure of the other one do really well in real life.
The rest of this is a crosspost from KBO:
I think you guys have some misconceptions. There are some points in here that are valid, most definitely, but many of the ideas you have brought forth are actually not true.
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is more important than IQ, but only in a practical sense. Overall, however, the most important thing is balance. This is true.
However, it is impossible to assign percentages like you have here. 80%/20% might be applicable to a janitor, but for a physicist, you would obviously need to have much more IQ. It's all conditional. Part of EQ/IQ is being able to figure out how much EQ/IQ you actually need for each circumstance and being able to adequately adjust to your surroundings.
So while your general concept is correct, you're misguided about the importance of each.
This is a load of bull. You're only trying to make excuses for yourself.
First of all, school has no influence over a person's EQ/IQ level. School only enters information into our brains, but computing power resides in the person itself and nothing else. In fact, your EQ/IQ level is mostly determined by genes and interaction at home. The fact that you blame the school for this is completely inaccurate.
However, as a senior, I'm sure you indeed have taken a few courses that in fact do "limit your creativity." However, these courses are only found in the upper levels, and are debatable. From K-8, there should be almost no dispute that the education is at the very least adequate enough to endorse creativity while learning new concepts. High school, once again, is debatable.
The problem with the education system in this country is not that it limits your creativity. In fact, we are actually pretty well off. We have tons of resources. The only problem is that these resources are being wasted, and the system is not personalized enough. There's actually nothing wrong with the teaching. The teaching is fine.
On that note, enough about the education system. That's a completely different topic altogether.
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