Emotional intelligence beats raw IQ almost every single time. Think about it—a community full of empathetic, self-aware people with average problem-solving skills will naturally be fairer and less prone to conflict than one packed with geniuses who can't read a room or manage their egos. In crypto and decentralized communities especially, this hits different. You can have the most brilliant protocol designers, but without emotional maturity and the ability to collaborate, you get fractured ecosystems and governance disasters. A high-EQ society keeps itself honest through mutual respect and genuine communication. A high-IQ, low-EQ one? That's where you get toxic hierarchies, zero-sum thinking, and conflict spirals. The difference compounds over time.