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emotional intelligence is a necessary but insufficient quality for being good at emotions

you also need emotional wisdom, constitution, dexterity, charisma,

this started as a serious tweet. i think emotional intelligence is a very small part of the toolkit. people naming it will say it applies to every aspect of being good at emotions, but that's not how it's used in practical conversation

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