For a long time, people have been accustomed to using IQ as a measure of talent, but modern research shows that the determinant of talent success is not only IQ, but also emotional intelligence. A considerable number of those who are successful in the management field are people whose IQs are not considered very high in school.
We often see such people who are highly educated. Their IQ gives them a wealth of knowledge, allowing them to successfully find a job in a unit or engage in research work. If he has high emotional intelligence, stable mood, strong ability to adapt to the environment, is not overly demanding of the outside world, his superiors, and colleagues, has an appropriate evaluation of himself, does not "expand or shrink" due to external influences, and can "regroup" when frustrated, ", and can continuously improve one's own psychological quality, never complaining about others or being pessimistic and disappointed. In this way, his IQ and potential can be fully utilized, he will be able to work with ease and achieve success. On the contrary, if a person has a high IQ, but is conceited about it, has low emotional intelligence, and is troubled day and night by the less-than-ideal environment around him, his ending will either be cynical, self-admiring, and unable to integrate with society, the company, or his colleagues; or If you don't achieve high or low, you will live a life of mediocrity; or you may go down a wrong path and be ruined by high-intelligence crimes. It can be seen that whether a person is successful or not, EQ is as important as IQ.
A girl who had excellent academic performance in college was retained as a teacher. She is still teaching and has been promoted to professor. The other girl has average academic performance. Because she is the squad leader and often participates in various activities, she is recognized as a person with strong activity ability. After graduation, she worked in several units, but found them all unsatisfactory, so she went abroad to start her own company and became the general manager. Her company is getting bigger and bigger, and now she has several small companies in the United States with fixed assets of more than 10 million US dollars. At a class reunion more than ten years later, the professor and the general manager met. The professor said: You can become a billionaire now. The general manager said: You have so much knowledge, you are the real rich man.
People tend to focus on IQ but ignore emotional intelligence. It can be seen from the above example that people with high IQ can achieve results in their professions, while people with high EQ can achieve results in management operations. No matter what kind of career they succeed in, successful people often have both IQ and EQ. Therefore, in modern management, managers should learn more knowledge about emotional intelligence. Although emotional intelligence is innate, it can be continuously improved through continuous learning and accumulation of experience. Therefore, having high emotional intelligence is not an unattainable thing. If you want to become a successful person, you should not only learn new knowledge and skills in related fields, but also constantly and consciously improve your emotional intelligence level, which can affect the full development of other abilities.
IQ (intelligence quotient, abbreviated as IQ) is a tool used to express intelligence level and is also a commonly used method to measure intelligence level. The level of IQ reflects the level of intelligence. Emotional quotient (abbreviated as EQ) refers to the ability to understand, control and regulate one's own emotions. The level of emotional intelligence reflects the difference in emotional quality. Emotional intelligence plays a more important role in people's success than IQ.
IQ and EQ are both important psychological qualities of a person and are important foundations for career success. How they are related is an important theoretical question raised in the research on IQ and EQ. A correct understanding of the differences and connections between these two psychological qualities is conducive to a better understanding of people themselves, to overcoming the erroneous tendency of intelligence first and intelligence only, and to cultivating healthier and better talents. Emotional quotient and IQ are two different psychological qualities. What are the differences between them?
First of all, IQ and EQ reflect two different psychological qualities. IQ mainly reflects a person's cognitive ability, thinking ability, language ability, observation ability, calculation ability, rhythmic ability, etc. In other words, it mainly expresses people's rational ability.
It may be the function of the cerebral cortex, especially the left hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for abstract thinking and analytical thinking.
Emotional intelligence mainly reflects a person’s ability to feel, understand, apply, express, control and regulate his or her emotions, as well as his ability to handle emotional relationships between himself and others. Emotional intelligence reflects an individual's ability to grasp and deal with emotional problems. Emotion often precedes reason. It is irrational and its material basis is mainly connected with the brainstem system. The frontal lobe of the brain controls emotions.
Secondly, the formation basis of IQ and EQ are different. Although EQ and IQ are both related to genetic factors and environmental factors, their relationships with genetic and environmental factors are somewhat different. The relationship between IQ and genetic factors is much greater than that of social environment factors. According to the entry in the British "Concise Encyclopedia Britannica·Intelligence Quotient": "According to survey results, about 70-80% of the differences in intelligence are due to genetic genes, and 20-30% of the differences in intelligence are caused by different environmental influences."
Innate factors also exist for the formation and development of emotional intelligence. For example, "Basic human expressions are common to all human beings and have cross-cultural consistency." ("Emotional IQ", edited by Pan Yunming, China City Press, page 22) Research by American psychologist Ekman shows that from Uncontacted New Guineans were able to correctly judge expressions in photographs of other ethnic groups. However, there are great cultural differences in emotions. Folklore research shows that there are significant differences in the emotional expressions of different ethnic groups. Child psychology research shows that congenitally blind children have relatively weak emotional abilities due to the impact of socialization barriers caused by barriers to social communication. Anthropological research shows that the emotions of primitive humans are very different from those of civilized humans. They are irritable, moody, and have poor self-control ability. Some anthropological researchers in the United States believe that human beings have very weak emotional control abilities in childhood. From today's perspective, it looks like they are suffering from collective psychosis. It can also be seen from the study of modern history that human emotions are easily affected by the social environment, and people always have a deep-rooted herd mentality. The social sentiment in Germany during World War II fully illustrates this point.
Third, IQ and EQ play different roles. The main function of IQ is to understand things better. People with high IQs have excellent thinking quality, strong learning ability, and deep understanding. They are prone to make outstanding achievements in a certain professional field and become experts in a certain field. Surveys show that many people with high IQs have become experts, scholars, professors, judges, lawyers, reporters, etc., and have high attainments in their fields.
Emotional intelligence is mainly related to irrational factors, which affects the motivation for understanding and practical activities. It strengthens or weakens the driving force to understand things by affecting people's interest, will, and perseverance. Although people with low IQ but high EQ may not learn as efficiently as those with high IQ, they can sometimes learn better and achieve greater success than those with high IQ. Because the spirit of perseverance enables diligence to make up for weakness. In addition, emotional intelligence is the ability to grasp and regulate the emotions of oneself and others. Therefore, it has a greater bearing on the handling of interpersonal relationships. Its function is closely related to social life, interpersonal relationships, health status, and marital status. People with low emotional intelligence have tense interpersonal relationships, their marriages are prone to breakdown, and their leadership skills are not high. People with higher emotional intelligence usually have healthier emotions, have happier marriages and families, have good interpersonal relationships, are more likely to become leaders of a certain department, and have higher leadership and management capabilities.
In short, IQ reflects more of an individual’s biological characteristics, while EQ reflects more of an individual’s sociological characteristics.
Passed professional tests, IQ70 - mentally handicapped
70-89 - low intelligence
90-99 - medium intelligence
100- 109 - Average intelligence
110-119 - Excellent intelligence
120-129 - Very good intelligence
130-139 - Very, very good intelligence
140-Genius