What emotional intelligence qualities allowed Amy Cuddy to be successful after the accident?
Of course having her IQ decreased as a consequence of a car accident did not make Amy Cuddy’s life any easier. Sometimes, if not always, life does not work the way we want; the answer a person with a very high IQ might have then is just not the right one to solve the problem and to make things work again as planned. When all that happens, the successful goal one meant to achieve, if everything occurred as planned, will just not be achieved. On the other hand, people like Amy Cuddy, in spite of their low IQ, seem somehow to always find a way to reach their goals, to succeed. They are smart enough to solve their problems and they seem to wake up every morning excited …show more content…
Roosevelt once said, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” In other words, be self-aware, know what you can and you cannot do, adapt yourself to the environment, or, if you can, adapt the environment to yourself. It is not just IQ what makes someone successful, if it was, a chess master would become also a great doctor or anything else he would want to become. In Amy Cuddy’s case, self-awareness, which is considered to be an element of emotional intelligence, was what permitted her to realize what she would no longer be able to achieve, and how hard it would be to achieve her new goal. Self-actualization, another EI element, seemed to have played another important role also in her success. For example Amy Cuddy finished her studies in 8 years, and that does not seem to be a great academic success, one might say; however, she went much farther than many students with no learning disability who just drop out. That all said, her empathy and ability to connect with people, i.e., her social skills played also a big role in her success. The support she had from her mentor, for example, when she just
Of course having her IQ decreased as a consequence of a car accident did not make Amy Cuddy’s life any easier. Sometimes, if not always, life does not work the way we want; the answer a person with a very high IQ might have then is just not the right one to solve the problem and to make things work again as planned. When all that happens, the successful goal one meant to achieve, if everything occurred as planned, will just not be achieved. On the other hand, people like Amy Cuddy, in spite of their low IQ, seem somehow to always find a way to reach their goals, to succeed. They are smart enough to solve their problems and they seem to wake up every morning excited …show more content…
Roosevelt once said, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” In other words, be self-aware, know what you can and you cannot do, adapt yourself to the environment, or, if you can, adapt the environment to yourself. It is not just IQ what makes someone successful, if it was, a chess master would become also a great doctor or anything else he would want to become. In Amy Cuddy’s case, self-awareness, which is considered to be an element of emotional intelligence, was what permitted her to realize what she would no longer be able to achieve, and how hard it would be to achieve her new goal. Self-actualization, another EI element, seemed to have played another important role also in her success. For example Amy Cuddy finished her studies in 8 years, and that does not seem to be a great academic success, one might say; however, she went much farther than many students with no learning disability who just drop out. That all said, her empathy and ability to connect with people, i.e., her social skills played also a big role in her success. The support she had from her mentor, for example, when she just