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Practical and Emotional IntelligencePractical intelligence is the cognitive ability to use practicality or common sense to adapt to and solve everyday, real-world problems. Practical intelligence relates to our successes in daily living (Sternberg, 2000,2002b; Sternberg & Hedlund, 2002; Wagner, 2002; Muammar, 2007; Lievens & Chan, 2010) and is absorbed primarily through the process of observing.