DEVELOP COGNITIVE EMPATHY BY LIVING IN ANOTHER CULTURE

"Degrees in themselves do not guarantee any growth in emotionally intelligent leadership ability. Emotional Intelligence competencies develop in the midst of life. There are a wide variety of situations in which this can occur."....

..."So many of the situations you name could provide this kind of natural strength building. Living in another culture, for instance, can be a great way to develop more cognitive empathy, where we understand other people’s mental models – how they see the world. 
This competence makes us better communicators: we know how to put things so people understand".

Daniel Goleman-Co-Director of Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations