In the book, Tough examines the skills and traits that lead to success and ultimately advances the hypothesis that character attributes may be more crucial than cognitive skills like IQ and intelligence.
And, emotional and gender intelligence unlike IQ have skill sets that can be learned by anyone.
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And just as with IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence), some people naturally have more CxQ than others.
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Furthermore, they have shown that children who participate in MOCEP together with their mothers achieve higher scores in intelligence and aptitude (IQ) tests and standardised school examinations, and were therefore better prepared for school.
The bias affects our idea of our own intelligence as measured by IQ, how we judge our ability to think, our notion of our own relative academic records, test results, health, even ability to drive a car and be popular among friends.
This is particularly fatal flaw because IQ is a threshold skill, unlike emotional intelligence, which distinguishes star performers from the average.
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Over 25 years of scholarly research has convinced author Daniel Goleman that emotional intelligence is more responsible for success than is IQ.
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Previous work has offered income, education, low levels of agricultural labour (which is replaced by more mentally stimulating jobs), climate (the challenge of surviving cold weather might provoke the evolution of intelligence) and even distance from humanity's African homeland (novel environments could encourage greater intelligence) as explanations for national differences in IQ.
In a third international study of 515 senior executives, emotional intelligence was a better predictor of success than either relevant previous experience or high IQ.
Although the average IQ of men and women is equal, men are more frequently found at both extremes of intelligence.
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