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Emotional Intelligence & Gratification

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We are always in a catch 22 situation when it comes to rating EQ and IQ. People often find themselves confused over the importance of one over the other. The whole world has been advocating having higher IQ. We literally bow to the people with higher IQs. Number of experts and equal number of tests available today have confirmed the supremacy of higher IQs. I, like many, had similar view points about the importance of IQ to achieve success in life. The world around us has bolstered our belief by exhibiting how people with higher IQs secured admissions to best of the schools in the world and how they are much ahead in life than most of us and how they enjoying the (material) fruits of life. The generation Y or Z believes in instant gratification. It is unfortunate how we are bombarded with the idea of instant gratification. Nothing wrong in fulfilling our material needs, but if it is the only thing we are worried about, then it becomes a problem. Such people are extremel