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Jon
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EQ > IQ As I get older (I’m 37) I think EQ matters more than IQ. Particularly with regard to how we are biologically hardwired to avoid fear and pain. I think high EQ means integrating your pain. Realizing it’s part of who you are. This builds resilience. And it changes your relationship with parts of yourself that you resist. “What you resist persists” etc. It’s also very hard and counterintuitive for one to accept their own demons. You have to walk through the fire. And it can’t be done through cognition or “growth performance” or productivity hacks. You have to actually embrace the scary, fucked up feelings so that your system learns, from the inside, that it can ride the wave. That physiological trust frees up choice, reveals deeper resources like self-compassion, and becomes the bedrock of real resilience.
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