Am I Just Stupid, or What?

I have been reading an interesting book on the subject of "emotional intelligence."  The book is named just that, Emotional Intelligence, by author Daniel Goleman.  I have never been a big fan of books about intelligence.  I really didn't like The Bell Curve by Herrnstein and Murray that put forth the supposition that only those that go to Harvard have a right to rule the world.  Books like that have a way of making me feel very, well, stupid.  This book by Goleman is interesting.  Haven't you met people who seem to be deficient in the "EQ" category.  They tend to be ruled by their emotions.  If they are depressed, then the whole world takes on a depressed tone...they become simply unable to see anything anywhere that is not "depressing" or boring or sad or whatever their current ruling emotion may be.  But I am really not buying all this stuff about intelligence.  To me good old common sense (or, intelligence) is mainly the ability to see the big picture.  To put yourself in your appropriate place in the scheme of things, which is usually a much diminished position than we like to delude ourselves into originally thinking.  Higher levels of raw intelligence seem to come in the form of an ability to explain both why things are and how they might turn out.  Problem is most of us suffer from a marked degree of blindness when it comes to predicting the future.  Those who sometimes get it right do so perhaps with a small degree of what one might call "intelligence" and a larger degree of what I might call "luck."  One person is not smarter than the next just because he picked the winning lottery number, or invested in Google when it was trading in the pink sheets.  He was just intelligent enough to know there might be some potential there and lucky enough to have turned out to be right.  However, that person is vaulted above the rest of us as being of superior intelligence (emotional, or intellectual, or whatever).  I just flat out refuse to allow books about intelligence get me down any more.  I know I am stupid and I am damn proud of it.  I guess I should boast that I am reading Emotional Intelligence in Spanish, albeit very slowly...does that make me smart?