I LOVE Emotional Intelligence. I am working on a research proposal and came across an emotional intelligence test on the internet. I started at survey monkey but ended up at jotform.com and I am including the test here.
Emotional Intelligence basically is learning impulse control. Daniel Goleman wrote a book on it back in 1995 and it went viral. I am reading it now, but not the one from 1995, this one is re-written in 2005 with some improvements. So far, it is a great read.
In the Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, it states that emotions influence nearly all aspects of cognition, including attention, memory and reasoning.
Socrates was great at reasoning. In the encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, it says that “Socrates was the teacher whose main activity was to liberate his interlocutors from error through strategies which were at times violent and that affected their emotions and who subsequently guided them in the search for the truth”.
Knowing more emotions helps those that have a high
EQ to reason better, therefore allowing them to be more focused and lucid. A higher EQ also helps you from going off on tangents and getting lost in what you were talking about in the first place.
I recommend taking the quiz. I wanted it to be part of a survey, but it will be unique to you. I won't know if you took the survey or not. I won't know your personal information and basically I am providing this link blindly. I don't get any information about anything or any part of that survey. I just think it would be a fun thing to do.
Read my Vocabulary ABC's and see the vast amount of information out there for mental health.