More on my views on emotional intelligence.

Alexei Sorokin
4 min readApr 11, 2022

I wrote this story on one aspect of emotional intelligence: when people are unable to return your questions about their life and show some interest — genuine or perfunctory — in your life, I tend to form a low opinion of their emotional intelligence.

A disclaimer: I’m not a psychologist or expert in emotional intelligence! I’m just sharing my personal observations!

So some more notes in no particular order.

  • Readiness to announce, in an intimate setting, one’s strong views on inherently complicated and

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/