Being in tune with your emotions definitely serves a social purpose as we can see from that social awareness and social regulation component. Emotional intelligence is more linked to just a general sense of well-being and peace and comfort and being able to navigate what life kind of throws at you so there was a reason we talked about emotional intelligence in terms of those four key components because they're all equally crucial but you can also build your EQ by focusing on each one of them. The questions to ask are when I encounter an emotion how do I react are those emotions accompanied by physical sensations? Do you experience individual feelings in emotion or can you feel them at the same timeso anger and sadness it's really