Is your EQ more important than IQ?

You need to have a brilliant IQ to be a good engineer, but to be a leader of engineers, your EQ matters more than your IQ. IQ is the intellectual ability to manage ideas, knowledge and thoughts. EQ is the ability to manage relationships with other people.

Can EQ can be developed?

The good news is that emotional intelligence can be learned and developed. As well as working on your skills in the five areas above, use these strategies: Observe how you react to people.

What is the normal EQ?

90-100
An average EQ score ranges from 90-100, with a perfect score measuring 160. Those who score high on this test tend to demonstrate tendencies to make an effort to understand and empathize with others. Those with below average EQ scores can increase their emotional intelligence by learning to reduce negative emotions.

What is it like to have a high IQ and low EQ?

People with high IQ and low EQ are full of themselves, consider themselves irreplaceable, impeccable and unerring, and will simply walk over you. They usually are aware they are intelligent, and see themselves as visionaries, revolutionaries and trailblazers, but they are not aware…

What percentage of people score below average on the IQ scale?

It is estimated that about 0.13\% of people score low. About 2.14\% of people score borderline low. 13.59\% of people score below average, and 34.13\% lower average. Now let us look at the higher scores on the IQ scale. It is estimated that also about 34.13\% of people have a higher average score. 13.59\% of people have an above-average score.

What are the disadvantages of having a low EQ?

They are eager talkers and bad listeners. While people with high IQ will have problems on interacting with people outside their communication range (+/- 30 points), people with low EQ are likely to have problems on interacting with people even within their own communication range.

Do emotional needs override IQ?

In other words, the person’s thinking mind (IQ) becomes slave to his or her emotional needs as low EQ overrides high IQ, which is why smart people can keep making the same dumb mistakes over and over. Of course, addiction is an obvious example of an emotional need over-riding high IQ.