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Emotional Intelligence can be an off-putting term. At least to me it can. The words have no business together. Emotional has to do with one’s feelings and Intelligence has to do with one’s ability to solve problems and retain knowledge. There’s no use in muddling the two. The heart has its reasons which reason knows not - and all of that.

Like many people, I first heard about The Junto Institute from a friend. He works for Spikeball, a JuntoII company, and had just returned from a field trip to Nick’s Pizza and Pub in Elgin, IL. He walked into our apartment - we are also roommates - and dove right into a deeply excited, marginally coherent description of the operation that he had just explored: “Dude, I went to the craziest place today … a pizza spot … there are these ‘ops cards’ … people are signing boards … efficiency … madness.”