In my early 20s, I had a job on a large team and there were two different people in charge

of the department to women.

They were about the same age and one of them was clearly very, very bright, like definitely

in the top 10% of the team in terms of like just cognition, IQ, general intelligence and

the other one was pretty notably a dim bulb and I don't say that in any way as an insult.

She was incredibly charming, incredibly charismatic and in fact she did a lot better in the company

which is why I'm sharing the story.

They were very polarizing characters and it was really interesting for me to watch.

I grew up in a social circle where academic prowess and intelligence were valued above

all else and definitely valued way above emotional intelligence and then one of my early

work situations, I saw these two leaders, one of whom was trying to muscle through a team

with logic and reason and facts and just sheer intelligence and the other one was just

kind of a social butterfly gifted communicator and path and she did a lot better long story short

within about a year.

The super bright woman was outstead from the company and the dim bulb was outperforming

everyone in terms of sales and performance ratings and it was one of the first experiences

I had realizing that intelligence, yeah, it's clearly correlated with financial success,

clearly correlated with positive outcomes in some areas of life but as we move into more

and more of a digital age, I kind of have to wonder with AI and computers and things,

I kind of wonder if perhaps the more important scale, the more valuable scale going forward

might be your ability to self-regulate, understand your emotional environment, communicate

with people, your social interactions and people sometimes measure this in terms of

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