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>>9257201

>Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capability of individuals to recognize their own, and other people's emotions, to discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, and to manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt environments or achieve one's goal(s).Emotional intelligence can be defined as the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.

This doesn't sound like a meme. I've read Jordan Peterson's criticism of the idea, and I think that it's wholly unfair to write off the idea as a combination of the "big 5 personality traits". It seems like a skill that requires something analogous to fluid/crystallized intelligence, albeit with emotions, context, politics, etc. And it's not something that can be found in certain fixed personalities. How can you explain emotional intelligence as a certain type of extroversion when introverts and extroverts can express it? Is it now the ability to self-regulate and modulate the ranges of certain "big 5" personality traits?