The Skill That Gets Better With Age: Improving Emotional Intelligence for Senior Men

IQ peaks early and holds relatively steady. Emotional intelligence — EQ — can keep growing for the rest of your life, if you work at it. For senior men, this is genuinely good news. The self-awareness, empathy, emotional regulation, and social skills that make up EQ don’t require youthful reflexes or a sharp memory — they require experience, reflection, and intention, all of which men in their later years have in abundance. In this episode, we walk through what EQ actually is, why it matters more than most men realize, and a concrete step-by-step approach to developing each of its core components.