Why do high IQ people stagnate in their careers? Emotional intelligence

It&#x27;s called popularity (the same thing we all dealt with in high school). Those who are popular can do no wrong. Those who are unpopular can do no right. Popularity is also a double-edged sword, as can be seen recently in heroes who have fallen from grace, and suddenly everyone knows there was always something wrong with them.<p>And the bullying still continues. We like to think that high school was just a phase, but it&#x27;s not.

My income trippled once I understood this and actively pursued improving my emotional intelligence.<p>&gt; As Goleman explained in his interview, for any given role, there will be an IQ floor. If you become a professional software engineer, you will likely have an above average IQ. Otherwise, you won’t have developed the skills and expertise necessary to get the job in the first place.<p>&gt; However, the same can be said of all the other engineers you work with. Intelligence will no longer be the factor that sets you apart.

I stopped at Neil… it’s not even the same championship.

&gt; Of the 21 competencies the researchers identified for top performers, 18 were related to emotional intelligence. The remaining ones were analytic skills, conceptual thinking, and technical expertise.<p>I do see this in the wild. Coincidentally those three other skills are the ones I hone and find lacking in depth. I may be a bit rough around the edges in EQ but have my heart in the right place wanting success for the project and everyone. Bringing depth to those other skills is what distinguishes me, and makes me complementary to those who have the 18 skills at my level.<p>So I&#x27;m applying the same logic about engineers having an IQ floor in the opposite sense. Those who get to a certain level have the 18 EQ skills and may be missing the 3 not well correlated, which I can fill in depth. I can work on bringing my EQ up to the floor level but I don&#x27;t intend to optimize for it.

There&#x27;s an assumption here that people agree on a direction to move a career, or that they see a need to move in it

The mismatch between personal interests and careers can be the elephant in the room to answer this question.

Because the whole IQ thing is bullshit and has been debunked over and over again.<p>And by the way, if such people with high iq where actually smart, they’d have figured out how not to stagnate in their careers.

&quot;Emotional Intelligence&quot; is the 2022-2023 buzz word.