Emotional intelligence is being able to make choices not based on you emotions and understanding that your emotions will try to make you make certain choices. It is also understanding that your emotions should not run your decisions and that every one’s emotions are there own and you can only control yours. IQ is how smart you are logically, it is the complete opposite of emotional intelligence, it is what you use to do school and make choices based on facts. I do not think that one is more important than the other because I think that sometimes they go hand in hand. Without IQ you cannot determine your emotional intelligence, and without emotional intelligence you cannot determine emotional choices only logical ones. So therefore I think they are both equally important and they go hand in hand to create intelligence as a whole. Without one or the other we would struggle making rational choices.