2/8/11

No 1 Predictor of Success

I've recently read some studies that I find fascinating because they just confirm that God's Word is true.  A study was done which revealed that when people with hi IQ's outperformed those with average IQ's only 20% of the time where the average IQ people did better 70% of the time.  One would think hi IQ people would outperform average IQ individuals the majority of the time because of their higher intelligence.  This strange finding yielded research that finally explained the importance of EQ or emotional intelligence.

EQ is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, as well as the ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.


It turns out that a person's emotional intelligence(EQ) is the No. 1 predictor of a person's success in their lives no matter what their educational background.  The ability to identify, manage your emotions and those of others has more to do with your success than your measured intelligence.  How wrong we've gotten it in our message to young people.  We harp on education, and I'm all for it, but we often neglect the most meaningful skills.  You can't do much about your IQ but you can develop your EQ.  I think about how this applies to church life and what my dad has told me from his 50+ years in ministry.  My dad said, "The #1 reason people leave churches is because of offense".  That's just a failure to manage one or more of their emotions.

Your EQ is comprised of 4 Catagories:

1. Self-Awareness
2. Self-Management
3. Social awareness
4. Relational management

I'll talk more about these tomorrow and the 5 emotions that you have to manage in your life.
    

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