There is something in this study that's slightly askew with recent work about the importance of emotional intelligence to professional success. Perhaps what's happening is, as the author theorized, that people of high power/status only choose to see as much as is useful to them to see ... not that they actually lack the ability to observe. And then the issue would become: how does one make it "useful" for a person of high status/power to notice urgent needs outside the gated community / private school / socially isolated worlds we've built?
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There is something in this study that's slightly askew with recent work about the importance of emotional intelligence to professional success. Perhaps what's happening is, as the author theorized, that people of high power/status only choose to see as much as is useful to them to see ... not that they actually lack the ability to observe. And then the issue would become: how does one make it "useful" for a person of high status/power to notice urgent needs outside the gated community / private school / socially isolated worlds we've built?