By definition, Intelligence quotient (IQ) is a standard test determine to assess human intelligence while that of Emotional Quotient or Emotional Intelligence is the human ability to identify, evaluate, control, and express emotions.
IQ is administered to determine educational placement, assessment of intellectual disability, or evaluating job applicants while EQ is determined by how a person relates to others and situations around him.
Parents sometimes are so proud to say that their children have a very high IQ. Should we solely be proud for our children’s intelligence? How about our relationship with our children when they were growing up? How were they when they were children? Were they ever bullied?
Our growing up years like family relationships, how the people around treat us, and our environment play an important role in honing our EQ. If this is coupled by a high IQ, more or less, getting thru life would be a breeze.
Some are forced by parents to make good for it is expected of them to be on top. Maybe because the parents have a reputation to maintain or an elder sibling graduated with honors.
There were findings that if IQ is not coupled by EQ, the overall personality is not whole. Within the community where I live, I have observed that not all who finished on top of their class, has a sure way of having a good life in the future.
Some of them lack the assertiveness a person needs to face challenges in life. Most of them are the pampered ones that comes from a well-to-do families. It’s as if, failure has no room in their lives.
If they went out of their comfort zone, they cannot function as much as when they are within the wings of their parents.
To sum it up, you will get through school with a high IQ, but life will be a breeze with a high EQ.
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I think both IQ and EQ are equally important. I think the way we “measure” IQ is questionable and very subjective. We are created with intelligence and emotion. That is our human nature. Neither can truly be measured accurately until we apply them in our own lives. There are many people around the world who don't go to school and never took an academic test. But they're not stupid or ignorant; and they have a huge heart full of compassion, empathy and sympathy for their fellow human being! That's what IQ and EQ both measure isn't it? Your ability to think, to adapt and survive in the world you live in and to care about those who live in that world with you?
You are truly right! We are born with both an IQ & EQ.
It is also true that those who have no education are ignorant and stupid.
Its just sometimes it irritates me if people look up to you just because to went to top notch school or finished on top of your class.
I, myself, am not good in my academic achievements & I don't have a high IQ, but I am good in my inter-personal relationship.
Thank you for your comment. Nice input on this topic.
A child with high IQ and EQ is indeed a very fortunate child. But oftentimes, both are not present in one person; so the saying "you can not have all the cake and eat it too" could be true.
We often see persons with high IQ as loners or they always want to be secluded because they get irritated with people who could not easily grasp what they are conveying or saying. They tend to be anti-social; so one can aspire more for a high EQ and he will enjoy life more.
As Treathyl FOX had commented, we are born with it. It is a matter of enhancing what we have.
I, too, would rather enhance more on the emotional aspect of my life, maybe because I am slow on the intelligence side hehehe.