What makes emotions as important as rationality?

Haven’t you heard people saying this kind of phrase before? “You are too emotional, think logically”. I am sure you have heard it at least once in your life. There are people who cannot control your emotion and shout or behave violently. Of course this should not happen. However if you use rationality to commit a crime it is also as bad as being emotional. Both emotion and rationality can lead to negative impacts in the end.

People chose to pick rationality over emotion because it is more useful and reliable way to judge individual talent. In 1912, the psychologist William Stern introduced a concept of measuring human intelligence by using IQ (Intelligence-Quotient) in German. IQ tests are not assessed based on knowledge rather logical thinking process. Raven's Progressive Matrices is a famous non-verbal group test with many different types of questions. One of questions can be finding out certain patterns from figures. After that, IQ became a common tool to assess how smart people are in society such as school, education institutions and even media like television shows.

It is possible to pick talented individuals through IQ but most of time people have to live by relying on each other by adapting in a society. This means people cannot survive by themselves if they do not help out each. IQ fails to judge how well people can actually work together as a team. This can be measured by using Emotional Intelligence which was emerged in 1990s. I believe EI came out because we deserve to be happy and have ambition in our work compared to the past. There are less repetitive jobs such as simplistic tasks in a factory and doing same process over and over. With low level of EI, being in teams can lead to conflict, miscommunication and loss of work productivity whereas with high level of EI, people are trying to solve problems actively thus it leads to high creativity and innovation.

Likewise not only IQ is an important tool to distinguish individual talent but also EQ. They are both equally significant when it comes to judge a person. In terms of responsible innovation, responsibility needs to consider many facts and different types of stakeholders as well as various circumstances which mean it needs rationality whereas innovation requires creative and passion for technology which obviously comes from emotion.