EQ - Measuring Your Emotions (1)

What's your EQ?

You took a midterm exam hoping to get a 95 percent. When you got your test paper back, you see your received only a 70 percent. How do you handle the situation?

Do you
1. make a study plan for improving your grade;
2. keep doing what you're doing and hope for the best next time;
3. use a persuasive argument to try and convince your teacher to give you a better grade;
4. tell yourself that your grade in that course really doesn't matter and focus more on the classes you're doing well in?

Your answer to the above question sheds light on your EQ, your emotional intelligence. What exactly is EQ? Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer define it as the ability to understand your own feelings and emotions and those of others. Also you are able to discriminate among those feelings and use that information to guide your thinking.

Studies show that a high EQ is often linked to success in life.

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Closer Look
You took a midterm exam hoping to get a 95 percent.
[Someone did something] hoping to... 
- Nancy got a second job hoping to make enough money to pay for her trip to Europe.
- Michael is rushing to work hoping he won't get a speeding ticket.

Language Lab
EQ n. = emotional quotient
- Sean has a very high EQ, which helps him to excel in his professional field.
IQ = intelligence quotient
- Raymond has an IQ of 150. He's a genius.

persuasive adj.
able to cause people to do or believe something : able to persuade people
- The care salesman was so persuasive that I bought the car right away.
- The attorney's persuasive argument convinced the jury.
persuade v.
- Henry persuaded the buyer to sign the contract.

shed light on 
to make something easier to understand, by providing new or better information
- Can someone shed some light on how to use this machine.
- The scientist's latest research shed new light regarding the cause of the disease.

discriminate v.
to recognize a difference between things [= differentiate]
- Bobby can't discriminate between blue and green. HE was tested and found to be colorblind.

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