EQ or IQ: the heated debate

Although many people do think that IQ and EQ work independently to form a successful person, and have been participating to an ongoing debate which is present worldwide, I believe that they actually work together. IQ is the intelligence quotient, which helps you reason logically. Without reason, we must concede that we would not be a very efficient population. We would be ultimately controlled by our whims and impulses and not be able to think from a third perspective. The thinking process would be much different if it consisted solely of emotions and we would be without an essential part of our learning and growing process. EQ is the opposite. It is the emotional quotient, which measures the extent to which different people can manage their emotions and use them to their advantage. Without EQ, we would be robots, with little or no emotional expression, or constantly think logically rather than emotionally. Could you imagine thinking rationally at a sibling's wedding or at a graduation? Humanity would be Mersault from the Stranger (to those in HL English). Although it is a different perspective and is quite interesting, life would be void of emotion and thus empty of all that makes it worthwhile. Mersault himself was a means to reflect the meaninglessness or life, and it is his character that most helped us see this throughout the novel.
I think that intellect is definitely a virtue. Without it we would not have much of our society's intellectual heritage. Without it there would be no Einstein or other historical figures like him. We would not have math, and would be similar to an aneurism; clumps of matter ready to explode at any opportune moment.

But at the same time, wouldn't emotion be a virtue as well? Emotion has long been seen as a burden because of its association with extremes; extreme anger which leads to violence and happiness or satisfaction, which if it were never ending would lead people to not do anything in their lives. But both of these show low EQ. EQ is the ability to control and manage your emotions and be able to express them without being overwhelming.
Just like IQ, EQ has its own representatives. These would include Nelson Mandela and Mahathma Ghandi. The ability to empathize, to help others, to feel pity, pain. All of the previous gave these influential people the will and the drive to fight for their beliefs which made the world a better place.

As I have read through the blog, I realized that most posts about EQ and IQ were interpreting them as two wholly different things. On the contrary, I think that they are very similar. To be able to use your intellect, you need emotion to arouse your interest in something and to push you to use your skills for an aim. Similarly, to be able to express your emotions, you need intellect and reason to guide you as to not offend or shock others. Without EQ, would Einstein have gone towards physics and math? Without IQ, would Ghandi or Mandela have had the ability to convince others and to change the world? Although  I have set these people to represent IQ and EQ independently, they could not have become who they were without their intellectual or emotional counterpart. Overall, I believe that EQ and IQ work together to make you who you are and are two parts of you which could not exist without the other. So I do not think that we would be better off with one or the other. It would be impossible to exist without either.