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AI, SI, and now EI: The Human Intelligence We Can’t Replace

how is your EI
how is your EI

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We all know AI. We’ve talked about SI (Sleep Intelligence — click here to re-read).But what we don’t talk about enough is EI: Emotional Intelligence. We’ll never be smarter than AI - that’s not the goal.AI is designed to teach us, assist us, even anticipate us but it will never be able to feel for us.

Emotional intelligence is the one thing we can’t outsource - the bridge between what we know and how we show up.

 

EI is the foundation of how we lead, work and connect. It affects:

  • Performance: Teams with higher EI outperform others by up to 20%, even when skills and experience are equal.

  • Leadership: Nearly 90% of top performers score high in emotional intelligence - not because they know more, but because they understand people better.

  • Stress regulation: When your EI is strong, cortisol drops faster after stress. You recover, adapt and refocus more easily.

  • Relationships: EI strengthens empathy and communication - the foundations of trust, connection and influence.

     

But you can’t access emotional intelligence without sleep.

When you’re sleep-deprived, your brain’s emotional centre (the amygdala) goes into overdrive.And your rational, empathetic self - the prefrontal cortex - shuts down.

 

That’s why after a restless night, everything feels harder and your patience shortens, emotions heighten and perspective narrows.

 

Sleep restores your emotional balance. 

It’s what allows you to pause before reacting, to listen before speaking and to lead from calm, not chaos. The place we all want to be.

 

You don’t need more optimisation. You need emotional foundations.

 

  • Deep, restorative sleep

  • Daily recovery and reflection, your meditation

  • Nervous system regulation, meditation, walking in nature, breath work

  • Human connection

 

AI may keep evolving, but emotional intelligence will always be your edge - the one form of intelligence that keeps us grounded, adaptable and human.

 

It starts with rest.

 

In calmness, clarity and joy,

Tiffany

 

 

 
 
 

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