Most people strive to receive good grades and build up their intelligence level in hopes of one day landing their dream job. Daniel Goleman, however, would tell these students to put their books down and instead focus on their emotional intelligence, or the way in which they handle themselves and their relationships with others. Goleman believes that emotional intelligence takes priority over IQ level because IQ measures your ability to do well on a test while emotional intelligence is your actual drive to succeed in the real world. Emotional intelligence allows us to have a vision of how we want to succeed in life, and permits us to put this vision into action by using our emotions to manage people and situations we are faced with at work, home, etc.
When hiring someone for a job, Goleman believes that you should take their emotional intelligence into greater consideration than their IQ level. This is because someone with a high IQ may appear intelligent on paper, but when put in situations where they are forced to aid fellow employees, they are incapable of guiding them in the right direction because they are unable to effectively, sensitively, and properly communicate with them. So being successful does have to do with our emotions, not IQ score. Businesses are looking more and more into people’s emotional intelligence than they are their IQ scores because EQ levels determine a person’s personality and communication skills which are crucial in leading and sustaining a successful business.
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