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There has been, for example, little recognition given to someone who could produce value through the way they manage mood, how they skillfully coordinate with others to achieve a desired goal, or their ability to ignite the passion and purpose of others.

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ,

“cognitive empathy,” which we can define as the capacity to understand another’s perspective or mental state.

Another way to put it is that mindsight is the basic skill that underlies everything we mean when we speak of having social and emotional intelligence.

the way we think about the world has a profound effect on what we do in it. If we cultivate a growth mindset and believe that skills come from struggle, then we are more likely to expose ourselves to the good kind of growth-promoting stress. But the power of mindsets doesn’t stop there. It turns out that our mindset toward stress not only determine

High expectations led to greater effort and performance . . . if they came from someone knowledgeable about the task.

Garett Jones, has written an entire book on this topic, called Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More than Your Own, and in that book he stresses how intelligence can have a nonlinear positive effect. That is, smart people can feed off each other and make each other better, within companies and even within nations.