According to Daniel Goleman, success can be broken down to be 70% interpersonal skills and 30% technical knowledge. The idea of this balance being in favor of interpersonal skills is not what I am questioning. A Forbes article titled “Intelligence is Overrated: What You Really Need to Succeed” stated that this imbalance is actually 85% impersonal skills and 15% technical skills. The article goes on to give an example how customers will sacrifice quality of the product just to deal with a better salesman. In the engineering world, it is often preached how it doesn’t matter how great your idea for a product is if you can’t actually convey the idea and sell it to an audience. As biomedical engineering students who are paying for an education that places a lot of emphasis on technical skills and only a small amount on how to present information, do you think this is a proper investment or is this system backwards?