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Is Emotional Intelligence Really So Important? | No Stupid Questions

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence

Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. Emotional intelligence is an ability that's valuable and you can get better at it, says Stephen Adams. The yale centre for emotional gence is devoted to the education of emotional intelligence. It's like a whole curriculum, their exercises. And i'll just say the foundationl to all this emotional intelligence in its various facets: Notice yourself, notice other people. But look, i think that people who consider abilities like ammushal intelligence to be malleable, to be learnable, et cetera. It's a little bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. So i'm all in on trying to

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