I think a lot of people mistake cultural literacy (knowing the right words for situations in a given time and place) with capacity for emotional regulation of self and others. I think I’m about as emotionally intelligent as either of my parents. Just different cultural range.
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EI is kinda like a pointillist set of situational literacies. Can you manage personal setback? An angry spouse? A sibling fight? A workplace disagreement with insecure boss? Huge family scene? Can you judge what to manage at all versus let blow up? Can you do it in 3 languages?
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Language is a good test. If you can’t manage a social conflict/stress test equally well in 2 languages you know, you’re using verbal skills, not EI. Test doesn’t apply to introspective 1-person situations though.
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Not saying OT poster isn’t right about themselves, but the suggestion that EI generally increases with new generations is false I suspect. While the Flynn effect in IQ may not be nonsense (though I suspect that too is an artifact of cultural change), the EI version is dubious.
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You’re probably right in the abstract, but almost all of the replies to the OP are about mental illness. EI = compassion for mental illness for this particular Twitter grouping.
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