Your emotional intelligence is more important than your IQ and this is why

Instead of trying to be the biggest brain in the room, try having the biggest heart for a change.

E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth
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12 min readJul 7, 2020

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by: E.B. Johnson

When it comes to being a leader we often find that our emotional intelligence is more important than our intellectual intelligence. It’s easy to understand why once you come to realize that our emotional intelligence is directly related to both our ability to communicate, and our ability to be understood by those around us. It’s the key to better relationships, but it’s also the key to self-actualization.

The greater our emotional intelligence, the more power we have over our emotions and our reactions to the world around us. Embracing this emotional knowledge makes us better communicators, but it also cultivates an incredible level of self-awareness that transforms us from the inside out. The more aware we become of ourselves, the more aware we become of the world and in that is a great power.

Being better means raising your EQ.

For a long time, we’ve lived in a tough world that has brutalized people over and over again on every plane imaginable. Being alive was hard and business was even harder. In order to survive…

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E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth

NLPMP Coach | Writer & Content Creator | Sharing my knowedge with the world ⭐️ https://linktr.ee/ebjohnson01