How to Cultivate "EQ"?

1. How to Cultivate "EQ"? 唐茂妮

2. Procedure • 1. Background Knowledge • 2. Warm-up Activity • 3. Main Idea • 4. Text Organization& Writing Skill • 5. Reading Comprehension

3. What are the qualities leading to a successful life? • Do you think it’s easier for clever people to succeed?

4. I’m a little bird, but I want to fly!

5. What do you know about IQ & EQ ?

7. IQ is an abbreviation for “intelligence quotient”, a measure of a person’s intellectual ability in relation to that of the rest of the population. It is expressed as the ratio of mental age to actual age, multiplied by 100, and is based on the scores achieved in an intelligence test.

8. Einstein's IQ was around 200!

9. IQ questions(T/F) • 1. Nine chickens, two dogs, and three cats have a total of forty legs. • 2.A pie can be cut into more than seven pieces by making only four diameter cuts through its center. • 3. The word, "mineral," can be spelled using only the letters found in the word, "parliament." • 4. This sequence of four words, "triangle, glove, clock, bicycle," corresponds to this sequence of numbers "3, 5, 12, 2." • 5. If Richard looks into a mirror and touches his left ear with his right hand, Richard's image seems to touch its right ear with its left hand.

10. EQ • Emotional intelligence is a different way of being smart.Those emotional skills matter immensely - in marriage and families, in career and the workplace, for health and happiness. • Aristotle spoke of the rare ability "to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way."

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12. Test your EQ • Do you recognize your feelings and emotions as they happen? • Are you aware of how you speak to yourself? • Can you put yourself in a good mood? • Are you persistent? • Do setbacks set you back? • Are you a good listener? • Do you frequently praise people? • Are you comfortable with your feelings? • If your answer is “yes”, you have pretty high EQ!

13. Personal  Competencies: • 1.    Self-Awareness • 2.   Managing emotion • 3.    Motivation • Social Competencies: • 4.    Empathy • 5.Socialskill

15. Now we have known some information about IQ as well as EQ. Both of them are very important for us. Then you will see several pictures of those people we all know. Discuss with your partner and try to rank them according to the degree of IQ and EQ. “A,B,C,D” should be used to show the different level. And you are required to choose the best three!

17. How to improve my EQ???

18. Please answer the following questions, and then try to find out the main idea of the passage. • 1.Judgment and knowledge. Which one is more important according to the author? Why? • 2. What is the author’s suggestion for people who want to develop their emotional intelligence? • 3. Is it possible to develop EQ? If yes, is it easy?

19. Main Idea: The new research shows that EQ may be crucial for business success. To cultivate our EQ, our effort should be aimed at improving four adaptive skills.As long as we keep at such effort, we can make it, for they are based on Our knowledge about the mechanisms of the mind. Without EQ, IQ alone is worth little.

20. Structure EQ is the hot ticket for business success. Part 1 (Paras. 1-3) The introduction of EQ. Four adaptive skills need to be improved to cultivate EQ. Part 2 (Paras. 4-8) Proposals (four skills) to cultivate it. The four skills are based on the mechanisms of the mind. Part 3 (Paras. 9-12) Why the four skills work. Part 4 (Para. 13) Without EQ, academic training alone is worth less and less. Conclusion: reemphasis on EQ.

21. Part I Part II Part III Part IV General-specific Listing (列举法) Explanation (解释法) Metaphor Writing Skill

22. Reading Comprehension for PartI • 1. What stuff do intelligent but inflexible people lack according to Daniel Goleman? • 2. What was reported by Time magazine in a recent cover story? There is an example in this part. What is it?

23. 1. The adaptive ability. • 2. Emotions may be the true measure of human intelligence. Karen Boylston suggested that customers prefer the companies in which they are understood and respected.

24. Reading Comprehension for PartII • 1. What should people do to raise their consciousness according to the author? • 2. What does the author mean by using the phrase “using imagery”? • 3. Why should we consider events again and again? • 4. Why does the author suggest integrating the perspective of others?

25. The Adaptive Skills:

26. Think differently on purpose!I know myself!

27. Try to be confident, optimistic and passionate!

28. It isn’t events that matter but our opinion of them! Just do it!

29. Our view of the world is limited!Enlarge your senses!

30. Control your emotion! Is it good to avoid anger? What’s your way of expressing frustration?

31. Reading Comprehension for PartIII • 1. What does our ability to think and reason involve？ • 2. When did we form a comparatively fixed world view according to the leading brain researchers?

32. 1. The author believe that our ability to think and reason is not confined to the brain but is distributed throughout the body’s cells and we think with our hearts, brains, muscles, blood and bones. • 2. In a single crucial three-week period during our teenage years.

33. Detailed Study • ------- Language Points

34. 1. What is the most valuable contribution employees make to their companies, knowledge or judgment? (Para. 1) • Meaning: What is the most important thing employees do to make their companies successful? Is it knowledge or judgment? • make a contribution to: do sth. to help to cause sth.He made an important contribution to the company’s success.他对公司的成功做出了重要的贡献。

35. 2. …indicate that intelligent but inflexible people don't have the right stuff in an age when the adaptive ability is the key to survival. (Para. 2) • Meaning: …show that people who are intelligent but not flexible to respond to changes don't possess the right ability in an age when the adaptive ability is important to survival. • Note that after the word “key”, a preposition “to” is used. Some nouns are usually followed by a prepositional phrase which consists of “to” and a noun group:

36. answer to the question 问题的答案 • 使用全部资料的权利 • access to all information • 进入这所大学 • admission to the university • 教学的新方法 • a new approach to teaching • 对环境的破坏 • damage to the environment • 这个问题的解答 • solution to the problem • 书的前言 • preface to the book

37. 3.In a recent cover story, Time magazine sorted through the current thinking on intelligence…(Para. 3) • sort through: look for sth. among a lot of similar things, esp. when one arranges these things in order • She found the ring while sorting through some clothes. • 她在整理衣服的时候发现了戒指。 • 这些董事们正在房间里工作，整理三十份申请这一经理职位的申请书。 • The directors were working in the room, sorting through thirty applications for the manager‘s job.

38. 4. If the evolutionary pressures of the marketplace are making EQ, not IQ, the hot ticket for business success, it seems likely that individuals will want to know how to cultivate it. (Para. 4) • Meaning: With the development of business, the pressures from the market are becoming higher and higher and this causes EQ, rather than IQ, to be the key to business success. In this case, individuals are very likely to want to know how to develop and improve EQ. • the hot ticket: here it refers to what is needed or suitable to be successful and everyone wants it

39. 5. I have a modest proposal: Embrace a highly personal practice aimed at improving these four adaptive skills. (Para. 4) • Meaning: I have a small proposal that we accept and believe in wholeheartedly a highly personal practice which is intended to improve these four adaptive skills. • embrace: v.1) accept enthusiasticallyYou'd be a fool not to embrace an opportunity as good as this. • 不抓住那么好的机会你真是个傻瓜。

40. 大部分西欧主要国家已满腔热忱地接受高速铁路网的概念。大部分西欧主要国家已满腔热忱地接受高速铁路网的概念。 • Most of the major West European countries have embraced the concept of high speed rail networks. • 2) hold (sb.) tightly with both arms to express love, liking or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving sb. • The mother embraced her baby tenderly. 这位母亲温柔地搂住她的孩子。 • 3) include • “人类”一词包括男人、女人和儿童。 • The term “mankind” embraces men, women and children.

41. 6.Raising consciousness. (Para. 5) • consciousness: n. all the ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc. of a person or people; interest in or knowledge of a particular subject or idea • The experience helps to change her social consciousness. • 这次经历有助于改变她的社会意识。 Compare: He lost consciousness after the accident and never recovered it ever since. • 事故之后他失去了知觉，再也没醒来。

42. 7. I think of this as thinking differently on purpose. (Para. 5) • Note some verbs are usually followed by a noun group and a prepositional phrase which consists of “as” and a noun group: • choose… as 选择……作为 • strike…as 给……以……的印象 • appoint…as 任命……为 • dismiss… as 把……作为……草草处理 • consider…as 把……视为 • label… as 把……称为 • regard…as 把……视为 • view… as 把……看作为 • describe…as 把……说成

43. 8.It's about noticing what you are feeling and thinking and escaping the conditioned confines of your past. (Para. 5) • Meaning: It involves becoming aware of what you are feeling and thinking and getting free from the limitations brought about by your past experiences.

44. 9. Raise your consciousness by catching yourself in the act of thinking as often as possible. (Para. 5) • Meaning: Pay particular attention to thinking differently when you are thinking in order to raise your consciousness. • in the act of doing sth.: while sb. is doing sth. • He was in the act of paying his bill when she came up behind him. • 当他正在付账单时她走到他背后。 • 她正在读我的信时被我发现了。 • I caught her in the act of reading my letters.

45. 10.Using imagery. (Para. 6) • imagery: n. the descriptions in sth. such as a poem or song, and the pictures they create in one's mind; pictures and representations of things • The imagery in the poem is mostly to do with death. • 这首诗的意象大多与死亡有关。 • 积极的思想和信念以及意象能应用于我们生活中的每一个领域。 • Positive thoughts and beliefs and imagery can be used in every area of our lives.

46. 11.You can do the same by setting aside time each day to dream with passion about what you want to achieve. (Para. 6) • Meaning: You can do the same thing by making sure that each day you have some time to imagine intentionally what you want to achieve. • set aside: save sth. for a special purpose • 我们试着每月省下一点钱。 • We try to set aside a bit of money every month.

47. 12. Integrating the perspectives of others. (Para. 8) • Meaning: Taking into account the views of other people and combine them with yours. • integrate: v. combine two things in such a way that one becomes fully a part of the other

48. integrating private schools into the state education system • 使私立学校与国家教育体系融为一体 • The idea with young children is to integrate learning with play. • 对幼儿的办法是学习玩耍相结合。 • perspective: n. a particular way of considering sth.Her attitude lends a fresh perspective to the subject. • 她的态度提供了看待这一问题的一个新视角。

49. 13.Learning to incorporate the useful perspectives of others is nothing less than a form of enlarging your senses. (Para. 8) • Meaning: Learning to combine the useful views of others with your own is just an important means to sharpen your senses and broaden your knowledge. • nothing less than: the phrase is used to emphasize how great or extreme sth. is • 他的疏忽简直就是犯罪。 • His negligence was nothing less than a crime.

50. incorporate: v. include (sth.) in sth. larger • The shopping center also incorporates a library and a bank. • 购物中心还包括一个图书馆和一家银行。 • Suggestions from the survey have been incorporated into /in the final design. • 从调查中得来的建议被纳入了最后的设计之中。