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EQ
The expression “emotional intelligence” is used to indicate a kind of intelligence that involves the ability to perceive, assess and positively influence one’s own
and other people’s emotions.
Intelligence is the “ability to adapt effectively to the environment, either by making a change in oneself or by changing the environment or finding a new one”. According to this definition, being intelligent entails much more than having strong cognitive abilities—
the kind of abilities that are typically measured by an
intelligence test.
To address some of the further abilities possessed by intelligent people, Elliot Solloway coined the term “Emotional Intelligence”. He considered that being able to direct one’s emotions, as well as being able to understand and influence other people’s emotional responses, went a long way towards effective adaptation to an environment. The term was picked up in1995 by Daniel Goleman in his best-seller book of the same title: Emotional Intelligence.
2. Daniel Goleman
As a psychologist who for many years reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times, Dr. Goleman was previously a visiting faculty member at
Harvard.
Dr. Goleman’s 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books), argues that petencies like self-awareness, self-discipline, persistence and empathy are of greater consequence than IQ in much of life, that we ignore the decline in petencies at our peril, and that children can—and should—be taught these abilities.
3. IQ
IQ is an abbreviation for “intelligence quotient”, a measure of a person’s intellectual ability in relation to that of the rest of the population. It is expressed as the ratio of mental age to actual age, multiplied by 100, and is based on the scores achieved in an intelligence test. The two most important scales for measuring IQ are the Standford- test and the Weschler test. The