Success is something everyone strives for in life. Everyone wants to be rich, powerful, influential, and loved. Everyone wants to reach their goals, but what’s the best way to do that? There are basically two schools of thought. The first, and most popular one, is by increasing critical thinking. Taking the time to logically think through everything lets us see all of our options, and allows for better decisions to be made. The second way, is based on increasing our emotional intelligence. We tend to make our decisions emotionally so by being able to manage them better, we won’t let those negative emotions control us. Suppose its flu season and people are deciding whether or not to get their shots. The people who get their shots will do it
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There is also no universally accepted way to measure emotional intelligence. The theories behind IQ have been well developed and tested for decades. The study done in 1955 by Terman, followed kids with a 140+ IQ to see how well they fared in life. He found that while the average income was $5,000 a year during that time, his subjects averaged $33,000 a year. They excelled in school and went on to have exceptional careers although there were still outliers in the group. EQ and IQ are both important skills for everyone to have, but I believe humans are by nature, social creatures. It’s hard for us to go through life alone and we depend upon each other to help us survive. If that’s to be believed, then EQ is more useful to everyday life. We’re constantly interacting with other people and therefore our emotional intelligence is always being utilized. There was research Nguyen …show more content…
With the emergence of EQ, and with people beginning to learn to control their emotions better, they are also able to manipulate others better as well. Hitler is a prime example of this. He uses pathos as a mode of persuasion and he was able to do this because of his understanding of human emotions. IQ can also be harmful since it is often used in ways it was never be meant to. There are many logical fallacies such as the strawman, which twists other’s arguments in order to better prove your point, slippery slope, which tries to take an argument down a path that might not even exist, and many more. People tend to use whatever they can to prove they’re right. They’re often more focused on being right than finding out the
There is also no universally accepted way to measure emotional intelligence. The theories behind IQ have been well developed and tested for decades. The study done in 1955 by Terman, followed kids with a 140+ IQ to see how well they fared in life. He found that while the average income was $5,000 a year during that time, his subjects averaged $33,000 a year. They excelled in school and went on to have exceptional careers although there were still outliers in the group. EQ and IQ are both important skills for everyone to have, but I believe humans are by nature, social creatures. It’s hard for us to go through life alone and we depend upon each other to help us survive. If that’s to be believed, then EQ is more useful to everyday life. We’re constantly interacting with other people and therefore our emotional intelligence is always being utilized. There was research Nguyen …show more content…
With the emergence of EQ, and with people beginning to learn to control their emotions better, they are also able to manipulate others better as well. Hitler is a prime example of this. He uses pathos as a mode of persuasion and he was able to do this because of his understanding of human emotions. IQ can also be harmful since it is often used in ways it was never be meant to. There are many logical fallacies such as the strawman, which twists other’s arguments in order to better prove your point, slippery slope, which tries to take an argument down a path that might not even exist, and many more. People tend to use whatever they can to prove they’re right. They’re often more focused on being right than finding out the