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Emotional intelligence is not merely about controlling emotional responses for one's own benefit that of others.
It is also about using emotion where suitable.
Emotion is, after all, at the heart of that sincerity which reassures, persuades and affords confidence emotion triggers flight or fight, sometime-appropriately emotion is necessary if we are to cope, for example, with bereavement emotion can lie at the source of our greatest joys.
Select the following options to test
Your child, in direct contravention to your orders, runs into the busy road. You pull him/her back and
Your child, in direct contravention to your orders, runs into the busy road. You pull him/her back and
smack or shake him/her
master your emotions and resolve upon subsequent punishment
master your emotions and explain why this was not a good idea
You then
tell the child off and threaten him/her with dire punishment
apologize and explain that mommy/daddy was frightened
burst into tears
It annoys you to
have to make the most of your physical attributes at work
see others making the most of their physical attributes at work
see others unkempt or sloppily dressed at work
You are infuriated with your partner. Do you
swear, and go for a walk?
refuse to speak for days?
plot revenge?
Your parent/parent-in-law is nagging, sarcastic and interfering. Your principal feeling is
resentment
pity
resignation
Grief is
a blight on your life
a necessary and salutary process
something which time will heal
Does worry serve a purpose?
sometimes
always
never
You are outraged by a newspaper story. Do you
become depressed?
rant at your friends/family?
write a letter to the newspaper?
Is your anger
a spur to change?
a spur to hurt or destroy things?
destructive of yourself?
Time is, above all
the great destroyer
to be ignored or vanquished
the great healer
A violent crime is, to you
an isolated, tragic case from which we can draw a lesson
outrage about which something should be done
a reflection of a general trend in society
You like music to be, primarily
deeply moving
soothing
exciting