Eli5: Why does general intelligence differ from person to person? I.e. Why is person A logically attuned and person B emotionally attuned?
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sometimes its how they were taught to digest their feelings. there a million ways to skin a cat and dealing with emotions can also be solved in many ways.
general intelligence isn’t relevant here.
once you are taught X number of useful tools or have not bee taught any tools, your emotions will start to work on YOU.
if you are relaxed, meditate, eat well, exercise etc… you will deal with the emotion differently than if you smoked pot and drank all night.
regardless what worked for you enough to repeat is how you are ‘tuned’ and thats what formed a habit.
mind tools are weird in that if all you have is a hammer, then every problem tends to look like a nail.
so people who develop good habits and logical strategies to deal with emotions are following a different path and not necessarily of higher intellect. they have just been exposed to a different set of tools.
some tools double well with intellectual problems and some tools double well with emotional ones, furthering each set of niche successes.
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