BY: EMPATHY QUEEN
- 71% of top managers find EI more important for business than IQ, and 59% would immediately reject the candidate with high IQ, but low EI! (Freedman, 2014)
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. - EI is responsible for 58% of job performance, while IQ accounts only for 4-25% of it. Additionally, more than 90% of high performers have EI above average (Schmidt, 2012).
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. - Did you know people with high EI earn annually 29.000$ more than their colleagues with lower EI? (Schmidt, 2012), Moreover your annual salary will grow by additional 1.399$ for every point added to your EI score(Bradberry & Greaves, 2009)!
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. - 30-50% of our total happiness from relationships depends on EI (Batool & Khalid, 2012; Eslami, Hasanzadeh, & Jamshidi, 2014; Nasiri, Marashi, & Raji, 2014). High EI of marital partners enhances the communication and increases the overall relationship satisfaction whether it’s a significant other, partney, friend, family, boss etc. (Schutte, et al., 2001).
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. - Our EI also affects our health; PHYSICAL, PSYCHOSOMATIC, AND MENTAL. (Schutte N. , Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Bhullar, & Rooke, 2007). Emotional intelligence helps us to deal with negative emotions; people who experience uncontrollable destructive emotions on a regular basis have 19% higher chances of heart diseases (Kam, 2015), and a frightening 70% higher chances of developing cancer (Hagan, 2013)!
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. - EI impacts prestige. A study of malpractice lawsuits showed that surgeons who spent extra 3 minutes comforting and being supportive towards their patients, were less likely to be sued (Freedman, 2014).
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. - The core of emotional intelligence is understanding of one`s emotions and emotional states of others. Unfortunately, only 36% of people can recognize their emotions accurately and timely (Bradberry & Greaves, 2009).
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. - During five consecutive years (2003-2008) global EI average rose by 30% (Van Camp, 2012).
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. - Even though women and men have equal potentials for developing emotional intelligence, some slight differences can occur: in the adulthood, women tend to develop their empathy and social skills, while men have been predominantly oriented to self-regulation (Singh, 2006).
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. - Unlike IQ, EI can be trained! This phenomenon is called `brain plasticity`(Bradberry, 2015). Therefore we can increase our EI level by practicing emotionally intelligent behavior until it becomes our habit and second nature!
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