As the USA and the Western world delve ever deeper into identity politics, we’re witnessing an amazing rise of so-called “popular podcasters/activists/authors,” such as Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin and many others, predominantly male individuals, who are getting amazing publicity for publicly interpreting (and misinterpreting) a variety of subjects relating to differences/equality of race, gender, job opportunities and related subjects. 
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What’s really annoying (and misleading) is the fact (they claim), that the central focus of all their debates is so-called FACTUAL INFORMATION (scientific truth), based on the data processing capacity of the BRAIN (reasoning mind).💃

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Sure, scientific truth is extremely important. But today we know, that specific scientific truth can be summoned and manipulated for any agenda what-so-ever. In short, we have so much and such a variety of scientific data, that we can find a fitting scientific truth for anything and everything! We really must investigate wider, deeper, rather than simply present a narrow aspect of an important truth, such as “the IQ is the best precursor for long-term success” and form definitive conclusions, as this can often be as damaging as telling a bad lie.
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For example, Jordan Peterson will present us all sorts of data and make it seem he’s making an educated claim, which technically he is. But is he just pouring honey over his own Ego or is he genuinely interested in promoting collective human synergy and prosperity? Sorry, as much as I respect and admire the man, I hear him make contradicting and self-promoting statements over and over in his (too) many talks/lectures.
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So, to get back to the main point of this article, we have these white guys discussing so-called “scientific facts,” which apparently show that Caucasians have higher IQ’s than black people and this is the reason why black people perform so poorly against the more successful white people. 
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This claim just seems so “inefficient” and thus irresponsible from the word go. Actually, Asians and Jewish rank top in IQ, followed by white and then black. I am not disputing scientific facts, but if we truly want to understand Who We Are, then the way these guys are debating the role of IQ is just not the best way (in my opinion) to go about it. 
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It’s like having a rally of big engines promoting the message that cars with bigger engines will get you to your destination faster! We all know that’s not true, because any journey is dependent upon many variables and the truth hides in the detail.

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Science deals with facts. I’m totally fine with that. Now bring in Darwin’s theory of evolution. You would think that predator animals, such as sharks or great cats, or large animals, such as elephants or whales, would dominate the world. But this is not so. Why? Because we live in a complex environment and there is so much more to succeeding in daily living than physical strength or size. Similarly, IQ is important and a human brain is an amazing machine. But give me a genius with a high IQ and no city experience, place him on the backstreets of Brooklyn alongside a local person with a low IQ, and see who’s more successful in surviving through the day/night. And this is just the beginning of a hugely complex subject.
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Today I want to focus on one important point, which has been the primal source of my success and wisdom. At age 15, the doctors told me there was no cure for my excruciatingly painful illness. They also told me that my only hope was to learn about the power of the mind. And this is where lies the problem to our dysfunctional behavior: We are obsessed with the mind and data processing. Today we fill machines with data and call them intelligent, or knowledgeable. But are they? Sure, the machine “knows” how to perform certain tasks. But can the machine ever truly understand? I mean, can the machine ever truly understand the wider implications of “that” which it knows?
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I believe machines are unlikely to ever understand the world in the “same way” that we humans do. This is because their so-called “knowing” is and will be wholly based on data. We, human beings, on the other hand, have Free Will, emotions and are fundamentally “unpredictable.” Ok, I understand that many of you have been convinced by the likes of Sam Harris that free will doesn’t exist. But that’s only because Sam Harris debates people who are unable to dismiss his fallible arguments such as; “choose a film and I can show you that no free will was involved in your choice” and similar nonsense. I will address the subject of free will in some other article, so let’s get back to my original point and that is the claim, that IQ is the best predictor of long-term success.
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Tackling my illness I soon discovered that my problem was not the mind. Sure, the mind was receiving data, processing it, delivering conclusions and acting upon these conclusions. But the cause of my illness originated in the body and was stirred up by my “emotional Self.” To cut the long story short, as I was forced to investigate how our emotions arise in the body, and the body and emotions are registered by the brain and subsequently manifest in the metaphysical mind, I began to cure my illness and discovered how we “co-create” our reality. My IQ helped to organize and make sense of the data, but my success in conquering the illness came from learning about my emotional Self. Put simply, by learning about my emotional Self, I took control of my mind (not the other way around) and began dictating how my reality unfolded. To put it yet differently, “we cannot always control what happens in the world. But we can always control how we react to what happens in the world.”
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But how do we react? What influences our reactions? Is it just down to our IQ? For example, a man pulls a gun and shoots another. Did he pull the trigger because his IQ was low, or because he was emotionally consumed and hence his emotional intelligence was low, so to speak? To address the question differently, why are there so many black Americans in prisons? Is it because their IQ is low or could this fact be related to the greater emotional turmoil the black population is experiencing?
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We are not machines. We don’t process data and then pull the trigger in the same way that machines execute their pre-programmed sets of actions. There’s a whole process of complex chemical reactions taking place in the body, the same kind of reactions I had to examine in order to cure my apparently “incurable” illness. Therefore, claiming that IQ is the best precursor in determining our success in life, is (I believe) as narrow-minded as one can hope to get. 
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Here’s the kicker! Emotional intelligence, which is measured as the emotional quotient (EQ) is far “older” than brain intellect (IQ) and yields a different kind of power than IQ. Most importantly, EQ arises from the core of our physical being-ness: it manifests as chemical processes all over our body and before the brain gets involved. The brain, we could say, “reacts” to our emotions. It collects the info, tries to make sense of it, and then takes what it considers to be the most appropriate action. But taking “right” action is often very difficult because reasoning while under the influence of emotions is like trying to fly a plane while in the midst of a tornado. The stronger the forces of the tornado, the harder it becomes to control the plane.

So, how would we define emotional intelligence?
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Emotional intelligence is our capacity to understand our own feelings, other people’s feelings, and manage our emotions in a way that adds value to living.
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To explain it in more detail, EQ encompasses an array of personal and social attributes, such as emotional self-awareness, self-assessment, self-confidence, and self-control, and projects these through a number of attributes, such as honesty and integrity, adaptability, teamwork and collaboration, optimism, understanding of others, organizational awareness, readiness to serve, inspirational leadership, the need and motivation to improve, the ability to take initiative, to solve conflict, to build lasting relationships, to persuade and to guide and, when necessary, to change direction.

Wooow, what an impressive list of crucial human traits! How many do you employ in your daily tasks?
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The essence of emotional intelligence is knowledge of the “Self,” the understanding of WHO WE ARE. But here’s a real kicker: While IQ is to a large degree hereditary, emotional intelligence is “learned” and therefore is predominantly dependent upon the environment. What does this mean?

I will continue this debate in the follow-up article (part 2)
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