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What is the most important soft skill for a geek?
Is for programmers also more important EQ than IQ?
What is the place of PQ(and is it a combination of IQ and EQ?)?
 
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The most important soft skill for anyone is learning how to deal with people.

Dale Carnegie's book How to Win Friend's and Influence people is the best source I know for learning this Soft Skill.
His writings have had a profound influence on my book.

I definitely think EQ is more important than IQ.

In this world we deal with people. People hire us for jobs, they work with us, they use what we build. Everything we do involves other people.
So, if you want to be successful, you need to know how to deal with them correctly.

The book, of course, covers a lot more than that. But since you asked for the most important Soft Skill, there it is.

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