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meaning or not.

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Welcome back to the Quot of the Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

.com. We got a brand new speaker on the show today. His name is Daniel Goldman, author

of the best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence. And today, he's going to talk about some other

factors. And what I mean by that is there's this misconception that in order to be successful,

you have to have a high IQ, but that's not the truth. Actually, IQ is only 20% of it. So,

what's the other percent? So Daniel's going to talk about some of that other 80%. Such as

your emotional intelligence and your self-awareness. And he's going to tell a story of a certain

movie producer and director and how he used self-awareness to change the movie game forever.

Here's Daniel.

So, when I was a graduate student, my professor at Harvard, David McClellan wrote an article

that was very controversial. He said, if you want to hire the best person for a job,

any job in any organization, don't look at their IQ, don't look at their GPA, don't

look at their personality profile, look at people in your own organization who hold the

role you're hiring for, identify the top 10% by whatever metric makes sense for that

job, compare them systematically to people who are only average in that role, and determine

the competencies or ability set that you find in the stars that you don't find in the

average. That's now called competence modeling. And it's done by a world-class organization

is pretty much worldwide. And what's interesting about competence model, at least what interests

me, is if you aggregate many different models and they're all independently derived, the

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