Importance of Eq for Survival in Society

Intelligence is an aspect for people to survive in a society because in order to do that people should be able to understand the dynamics of the society and also should be a successful member of it and in order to accomplish these two, some kind of intelligence is required. There are several opinions on different types of intelligences and their capacity of helping people out with fitting in the society, for example; some claim that higher level of IQ is more important to fit in the society and some other claim that having multiple intelligences is much better while some claim that emotional intelligence is much more helpful than the others in order to fit in the society. In this essay, it will be discussed that emotional intelligence is the most important type of intelligence for people to survive in the society because it has a great impact on people’s professional and social life which determines one’s success of surviving in the society. It also supports other kinds of intelligences which are also essential for this mission and besides these, high level of emotinal intelligence provide it’s owner a tendency to learn his society’s rules. Therefore, emotional intelligence is the most helpful type of intelligence for people to survive in the society and this claim will be supported by using Cary Cheriniss’s “Emotional Intelligence: What it is and Why it Matters”, Phil Yam’s “Intelligence Considered” and an article of Wall Street Journal which is named as “Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns”.
It’s a common argument that people with high level of emotional intelligence are not necessarily successful in their professional or social lifes. These people with high level of EQ may not have great social interactions with other people or they may not have a very successful career which means there might be a chance that they don’t fit in the society as well as they should. In the article, Emotinal Intelligence: What is it and why it matters, it is claimed that “…emotional