> Of the 21 competencies the researchers identified for top performers, 18 were related to emotional intelligence. The remaining ones were analytic skills, conc

> Of the 21 competencies the researchers identified for top performers, 18 were related to emotional intelligence. The remaining ones were analytic skills, conceptual thinking, and technical expertise. I do see this in the wild. Coincidentally those three other skills are the ones I hone and find lacking in depth. I may be a bit rough around the edges in EQ but have my heart in the right place wanting success for the project and everyone. Bringing depth to those other skills is what distinguishes me, and makes me complementary to those who have the 18 skills at my level. So I'm applying the same logic about engineers having an IQ floor in the opposite sense. Those who get to a certain level have the 18 EQ skills and may be missing the 3 not well correlated, which I can fill in depth. I can work on bringing my EQ up to the floor level but I don't intend to optimize for it.