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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AN ASPECT OF ACADEMIC INTELLIGENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT IN LIFE “Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.” - Edward de Bono Academic intelligence has most of the times in our society being measured and valued with respect to examination. One can term intelligence as the ability to learn and comprehend. Our measure of who is intelligent depends more on giving expected and appropriate answers rather than showing any initiative or creative spark, this is probably the reason for the clutch of third class degrees accumulated by such luminaries as Michael Morpurgo, W. H. Auden and Carol Vorderman. The problem of measuring intelligence per exam is that it is an inadequate guide to human capability, and that many of the ways we use to measure working intelligence are woefully inadequate. Surely those we should be seeking to identify and ...

KEEP MOVING FORWARD Are you flying? Or you are running? Are you hopping? Or you are walking? Are you crawling? Any of these questions reveals the pace in which someone's life may be on the going. The most important thing one need to understand from these questions is that no matter what the situation may be, don't stop but *KEEP MOVING.* In this article I share with you things that we need to be aware of to keep moving in life as described in a speech by Martin Luther Jr. "This is the most important and crucial period of your lives, for what you do now and what you decide now at this age may well determine which way your life shall go. And the question is, whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint. And I want to suggest some of the things that should be in your life's blueprint. Number one in your life's blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth and your own somebody. Don't allow anybody to make you feel that...