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This is bait but emotional intelligence is understanding your emotions, not the emotions having intelligence
The contemporary use is from management theory.
It was a metric made up to measure management candidates. From there it got into the self-help industry, and now that's why everyone posts it on their dating profiles.
I usually think of it in terms of recognizing others' emotions and adjusting your words/actions to better cooperate or de-escalate
I'd say they go hand in hand. Intelligently rgulating your emotional responses
Everyone sees what they want to see. Anon is blind, always.
Or not very emotionally intelligent, if you will.