Why You Need Emotional Intelligence to Succeed

You can be the smartest, most talented, driven person there is, but without emotional intelligence, you'll struggle to achieve your personal and professional goals.

When emotional intelligence first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the sole source of success—IQ. Decades of research now point to emotional intelligen…