Institutions play a key role in this process. Schools, media, organizations, and governments must take responsibility for promoting a healthy emotional culture. This means revising leadership models, teaching methods, and public discourse. It means moving away from rewarding coldness, indifference, and aggression—and toward valuing care, cooperation, listening, and emotional regulation as essential strengths.

The future also demands an integrated education where mind and heart are not separated. Where students learn to read and feel, to argue and listen, to calculate and console. Where boys and girls are not only prepared to compete, but to coexist. Because in an increasingly connected world, the quality of our relationships will determine the quality of our lives.

Neuroscience has already shown that emotions can be taught, that the brain is malleable, that emotional habits can be changed. This means we are not doomed to repeat toxic patterns. Change is possible. But it requires willpower, awareness, practice, and a firm commitment to a more sensitive and less reactive humanity.

The journey toward emotional intelligence is neither linear nor immediate. But it is urgent. And it is not just a personal matter—it is a strategy for collective survival. In times of fracture, affection is a political act. And emotional intelligence, a concrete way to build a more livable future.