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Lower EQ is better for you

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Brain and masksEmotional intelligence (EQ) is considered to be much more important than usual intelligence metrics, such as IQ. We use IQ only to solve logical problems. And we use EQ to solve every other problem we meet in our life: at work, at home, in family, with friends, on the streets, so on. This is EQ that defines our everyday behavior, not IQ.

Once in a while, 13 months and 13 days ago I did an EQ test. 13 months and 13 days ago my score was 61 out of 100. After 13 months and 13 days of training my EQ by observing and noticing others’ emotions, taking others’ emotions into consideration, introspecting my own thoughts and emotions, so on, I’ve ended up with 77 out of 100.

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Family and Corporation

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I noticed that bigger companies have more married employees.

Some time ago, I had an interview with Yandex: all six interviewers (two times by three) were ring-bearing diligent family men. So evidently diligent and so evidently “family men” even in their image, their outfit, that this has caught my eye. Even if some of them were not “family men”, they successfully simulated as the ones.

This dependency is very obvious: to support a family one need money, and not just money, but stable money flow, even when crisis or wars happen; and personal ambitions of growing and improving go to the background. And only the big corporations have such stability. Also, all personal energy goes to supporting the family and to raising the children, so there is nothing left for self-improvement.

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