Memory, IQ and EQ

By on November 12, 2009

We spend a lot of time building solutions to improve memory and the brain’s speed and accuracy … we understand how those improvements in brain performance translate into measurable, real-world impact.  I was struck today, though, about the importance of the brain in emotional situations.  A lapse in emotional intelligence - from misunderstanding your own or another’s emotional state – may lead to an outcome from which you cannot easily recover.

I had a wonderful demo yesterday of some groundbreaking work which tackles this issue.  Our research team is working on solutions to improve social intelligence by training the brain to recognize emotional cues … they are approaching the effort with the same rigor with which we have approached improving other aspects of brain performance.  Do you think that emotional intelligence can be improved?

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2 Responses to “Memory, IQ and EQ”

  1. Henry Lahore Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    Wrong word perhaps:
    emotional queues -> emotional cues

  2. Marghi Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    Thanks for noticing! We’ve made the edit.