How many times have we heard others talk about how 'intelligent' they consider to be someone? Intelligence is a description of how someone is doing something good mentally. Intelligence involves thought. Intelligence includes the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language and to learn.
Do you consider yourself to be intelligent?
Schools and the education system would have us believe that we are only intelligent if we can solve complex abstract problems or remember facts and figures. I agree that this is a kind of intelligence and this intelligence is commonly called intelligence quotient or IQ '(a phrase coined by an American psychologist named Lewis Terman).
A small proportion of the population has a high IQ and are the type of academic learning activities in schools and relatively easy. But the vast majority of people do not. So where you let everyone else?
Well, the good news is that IQ is not a measure of success. Most people with high IQ is not going to be a success as their IQ may lead us to believe. Most people with high IQ take a reasonably well paid, but routine jobs. Most are not happy with the risk and instead limit their own success, becoming 'comfortable' and remain well below what their potential suggests.
There is another kind of intelligence that may be more important for success in life and this has been advertised by the best-selling book "Emotional Intelligence" (or EQ) by Daniel Goleman (although the term has been used for many years two academics - Salovey and Mayer).
EQ has to do with recognition, understanding and choosing how we think, feel and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It defines how and what you learn, but allows us to set priorities, which determine most aspects of our daily actions.
EQ is the ability to create positive results in our dealings with ourselves and others. These learnable skills create joy, love, and the success of any kind.
Studying EQ becomes clear that IQ has less to do with success in life EQ. The good news is that we all have and that EQ can be developed. We can develop our EQ to help us build our relationships with others, to use our emotions appropriately, to focus our efforts and become more successful in life.
EQ can be so important that might be the best predictor of who will succeed in any area of life.
We look beyond IQ and EQ?
When you look at the world, you see only space and time, mass and energy, logic and reason? Or you also see the connectivity and design, purpose and meaning, faith and mystery?
In his book "What's your SQ? Michael Guillen has developed the idea of 'spiritual intelligence' or SQ. SQ consider your views beyond the materialistic life of modern life. Without spirituality can become very unhappy or dissatisfied with life, no matter what material possessions you accumulate.
You can be successful unless you are truly happy? I would not discuss and that a balance of IQ, EQ and SQ are necessary for a happy life and success.
There are other forms of intelligence? Yes, there is another important theory of multiple intelligences and you can read that in another article.
To be happy and successful life to focus on your EQ and SQ. If you're lucky enough to have some 'IQ too then so much the better - but not based on IQ alone.
© 2005 Max Wiseman
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