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Essay on Emotional Intelligence
The idea of emotional Intelligence has evoked a great deal of interest recently. A compelling case for emotional intelligence being important for success in living and very likely more important than intellectual intelligence. Everyone knows of people with average IQs who are highly successful and of others with very high IQs--stars of their high school classes--who never made it in the real world. This raises the question of what the first group has that the other is missing. Goleman's answer is that it has emotional intelligence.
There is no question but that emotional Intelligence is very important. However, as valuable as Goleman's contribution is to an appreciation of the importance of emotional intelligence, it also has several important limitations, among which are a failure to define emotional intelligence, the inclusion of so many different abilities under emotional intelligence as to obscure its meaning, a failure to recognize the importance of those aspects of practical intelligence that are not part of emotional intelligence, and, perhaps most important, a failure to appreciate the influence of preconscious, automatic thoughts on emotion.
This latter issue is particularly important for understanding emotional intelligence and what can be done to improve it. From the position that Goleman takes, there is nothing adults can do to improve their experience of emotions, as they are beyond the "neurological window of opportunity" that is available to children. The best adults can hope to do is to control the expression of their inappropriate or "unintelligent" emotions. Ironically, Goleman's analysis would rescue us from the false belief that success in life is determined by our IQs but then present us with an equally restricting false belief, namely that once we are beyond childhood, our success in life is determined by our immutable emotions. (P. Salovey and J. D. Mayer, 1990.)......................
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