E.Q. vs. I.Q.

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Emotional intelligence gives you a competitive edge. Even at Bell Labs, where everyone is smart, studies find that the most valued and productive engineers are those with the traits of emotional intelligence -- not necessarily the highest IQ. Having great intellectual abilities may make you a superb fiscal analyst or legal scholar, but a highly developed emotional intelligence will make you a candidate for CEO or a brilliant trial lawyer.

Empathy and other qualities of the heart make it more likely that your marriage will thrive. Lack of those abilities explains why people of high IQ can be such disastrous pilots of their personal lives.

An analysis of the personality traits that accompany high IQ in men who also lack these emotional competencies portrays, well, the stereotypical nerd: critical and condescending, inhibited and uncomfortable with sensuality, emotionally bland. By contrast, men with the traits that mark emotional intelligence are poised and outgoing, committed to people and causes, sympathetic and caring, with a rich but appropriate emotional life -- they're comfortable with themselves, others, and the social universe they live in.

A high IQ may get you into Mensa, but it won't make you a mensch.

CHANGE: Example of my weekend accomplishments

Cagey JG - changing America one question at a time.

Dear Gatorade:

I am sad to report that Gatorade is NOT in me.

I've fiercely scoured every 7-11, etc., in Virginia Beach and I can't find Fierce Melon anywhere.

Please airdrop a crate of Fierce Melon to my home and feature me in your next commercial.

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To whom it may concern:

What is the comic significance of "Bluto" Blutarsky's "COLLEGE" t-shirt? I intuitively find it funny, but can't articulate why.

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Glad I'm getting so much done this weekend! Working for you, accomplishing REAL CHANGE.