What is the Difference Between EQ and IQ?

This is more complex than the above would suggest. As humans we tend to focus on what we're good at. It makes us feel accepted and safe. And if you can get away with being how you are and are not overly curious then you will not grow your worldliness or EQ as well as others going through hardships because we 'grow' proportionately to need.

With a very high IQ (say > 145) often comes an overly strong focus on the cognitive and and so takes us away from feelings or developing an understanding of them. Hence a very high IQ does not bring a higher EQ. However, it's been found that a higher EQ is found with people with above average IQ (> 90/100). However it's further complicated as people who create and drive organizations often have high personal EQ and low social EQ ( the two components of EQ). In other words, they are focused and driven and self-confident, but are not overly concerned with others, or empathetic of their relationships with them. (Look at EQ CEO data). So it's often the social EQ that makes the difference. Social EQ is measured by EQ tests.

I wore my favorite pair of earrings to work but I didn't realize that they'd worked themselves loose and were ready to fall out. I work with teachers, senior managers and a headmaster, but the only person who noticed the problem was a child in the stream form for below average children. Measure that!

As intelligence increases, emotional development decreases. The ability to sustain personal relationships with family, friends, and love deteriorates at a rate of time proportional to the sum of time spent learning and increasing intelligence. This results in conflicting goals: intelligence vs. emotional development, which means Maslow's hierarchy is flawed as self actualization is not built on belonging or love, but rather the fulfillment of becoming more intelligent.

In fact, there is little evidence that you become more intelligent and 'move up the hierarchy' once you feel that you belong. Belonging is an emotion that deteriorates as your intelligence increases.

IQ is something you are born with, but EQ can be improved.

How meaningful and important are the IQ and EQ scores?

EQ is a gift provided to just a few people, like Bill Gates.

I myself have found ways to balance IQ with EQ effectively. The way I found balance was through enlightenment. Kind of like what anon30993 was saying about the Buddhist point of view, but I’ll get to that later. That was my first step to balancing productively.

My IQ is a big factor in my EQ. I use my intelligence and my high sense of perception to take information and process it in such a way where I take an idea and take it to a higher extreme, or purpose to self-teach to grow my mind and grow my understanding of myself, others and all surroundings. My high potential to learn has made me want to learn more and grow my mind, so right now, my mind is like a sponge and is making itself more aware physically and mentally. Basically, my mind gets an idea then it takes it to the next level, then that gives me more ideas then it continues perpetually until I can comprehend concepts that scholars take years to learn through college courses such as psychology, sociology and most of all, behaviorally.

My vast understanding of behavior is the sole reason I have a high EQ. I study reactions through the art of communication. I study people’s emotions as I chat with them, but little do they know they are part of my ongoing experiments. I adjust the conversation as it goes along so I can study both extremes of their emotions and everything in between.

The less people know about the study the better, because if they knew I was analyzing them, they would instinctively adjust their answers to please the study, which would ruin it. The same thing happens when being tested for their EQ. That’s why it’s so hard to get an accurate reading of someone’s EQ.

For me, it would be hard because I know when I'm being probed for information, which is no fun. I naturally sense the progression of a conversation to influence motivation and behavior.

The higher the I.Q, the higher emotional intelligence is. Intelligence comes from passion, emotion,and daily hard work.

habura, that isn't true. I am taking psychology courses and there is a definite correlation between the two, and that is proven. It's correlation coefficient is .7 so in most cases the higher IQ someone has, or the higher their potential to learn is, the higher their emotional intelligence is.

We need to be fully aware of what the arising thought.

We then watch the effect on our body, mind and feeling.

Most importantly, keep awareness of Dhamma and Sila.

Also practice Five Precepts.

Not to kill any living being;

Not to take what is not freely given;

No sexual misconduct

No lying; and

No drinking alcohol or taking drugs that makes your mind cloudy

As from a Buddhist point of view. In order to have higher EQ, we should practice the above.

I think studies have shown little to no correlation between IQ and EQ but it seems like, in my experience, the two seem to usually (but not always) be inversely related!