Emotional Intelligence

We all know someone who is incredibly bright and yet cannot seem to pull his life together. The brilliant student who flunks out of university, or the incredibly intelligent worker who can not seem to get ahead in his company.

We know from our familiarity with them that they have a good to superior intelligence level, but that does not seem to be enough to ensure success. And at the same time, we can probably describe in some form why we feel these people have not been successful.

My descriptions would include certain traits or behaviours that have nothing to do with intelligence. Over time, scientists have began to study why standard intelligence along is not enough to predict performance in an individual.

They have realized that there is another type of intelligence that is not related to the standard cognitive intelligence-it is called emotional intelligence.