How to Cultivate “EQ”

New Horizon College English Unit 10 : Section A How to Cultivate “EQ” 新视野

Pre-reading Activities Text Analysis Main idea and Structure Expressions & Patterns Summary How to apply to our real life the typical expressions and patterns taken from the text Blank filling Exercises Writing All the exercises for Section A 议论文与说明文写作技巧

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure New Words & Text Main Idea & Structure Main Idea New Words Structure Text Main Idea of Each Part Part Ⅰ Part Ⅱ Part Ⅲ Part IV

New Words Back • New Words • EQ • IQ • incorporate • maturity • trigger • Phrases and Expressions • make a contribution to • sort through • aim at • on purpose • in the act of doing (sth.) • take note of • set aside • reflect on/upon • pull away from • keep at 下一页

New Words Back • Proper Names • Daniel Goleman • Emotional Intelligence • Time • Karen Boylston 上一页下一页

Text Back How to Cultivate “EQ” Para. 1What is the most valuable contribution employees make to their companies, knowledge or judgment? I say judgment. Knowledge, no matter how broad, is useless until it is applied. And application takes judgment, which involves something of a sixth sense—a high performance of the mind. 下一页

Back Para. 2This raises interesting questions about the best training for today’s business people. As DanielGoleman suggests in his new book, EmotionalIntelligence, the latest scientific findings seem to indicate that intelligent but inflexible people don’t have the right stuff in an age when the adaptive ability is the key to survival. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 3In a recent cover story, Time magazine sorted through the current thinking on intelligence and reported, “New brain research suggests that emotions, not IQ, may be the true measure of human intelligence.” The basic significance of the emotional intelligence that Time called “EQ” was suggested by management expert Karen Boylston: “Customers are telling businesses, ‘I don’t care if every member of your staff graduated from Harvard. I will take my business and go where I am understood and treated with respect.’” 上一页下一页

Back Para. 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. I have a modest proposal: Embrace a highly personal practice aimed at improving these four adaptive skills: 上一页下一页

Back Para. 5Raising consciousness. I think of this as thinking differently onpurpose. It’s about noticing what you are feeling and thinking and escaping the conditioned confines of your past. Raise your consciousness by catching yourself intheactofthinkingas often as possible. Routinely takenoteofyour emotions and ask if you’re facing facts or avoiding them. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 6 Using imagery. This is what you see Olympic ski racers doing before entering the starting gate. With their eyes closed and bodies swaying, they run the course in their minds first, which improves their performance. You can do the same by settingaside time each day to dream with passion about what you want to achieve. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 7 Considering and reconsidering events to choose the most creative response to them. When a Greek philosopher said 2,000 years ago that it isn’t events that matter but our opinion of them, this is what he was talking about. Every time something important happens, assign as many interpretations to itas possible, even crazy ones. Thengo with the interpretationmost supportive of your dreams. 下一页上一页

Back Para. 8Integrating the perspectives of others. Brain research shows that our view of the world is limited by our genes and the experiences we’ve had. Learning to incorporate the useful perspectives of others is nothing less than a form of enlarging your senses. The next time someone interprets something differently from you—say, a controversial political event—pause toreflect onthe role of life experience and consider it a gift of perception. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 9The force of habit—literally the established wiring of your brain—will pull you away from practicingthese skills. Keep at it, however, because they are based on what we’re learning about the mechanisms of the mind. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 10 Within the first six months of life the human brain doubles in capacity; it doubles again by age four and then grows rapidly until we reach sexual maturity. The body has about a hundred billion nerve cells, and every experience triggers a brain response that literally shapes our senses. The mind, we now know, is not confined to the brain but is distributed throughout the body’s universe of cells. Yes, we do think with our hearts, brains, muscles, blood and bones. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 11During a single crucial three-week period during our teenage years, chemical activity in the brain is cut in half. That done, we are “biologically wired” with what one of the nation’s leading brain researchers calls our own “world view”. He says it is impossible for any two people to see the world exactly alike. So unique is the personal experience that people would understand the world differently. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 12However, it is not only possible to change your world view, he says, it’s actually easier than overcoming a drug habit. But you need a discipline for doing it. Hence, the method recommended here. Para. 13 No, it’s not a curriculum in the sense that an MBA is. But the latest research seems to imply that without the software of emotional maturity and self-knowledge, the hardware of academic training alone is worth less and less. 上一页

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure What is the text mainly about? Back 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: raising consciousness; using imagery; considering and reconsidering events to choose the most creative response to them; and integrating the perspectives of others. 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. In effect, without EQ, IQ alone is worth little.

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure How is the text organized? For details Back The author begins his article with a pointed question, thereby bringing up the topic, his ready answer—a high performance of the mind or EQ. Then he devotes most of his ink to how to cultivate EQ through listing four adaptive skills and why the skills go a long way towards the cultivation of EQ through explaining the mechanisms of the mind. Finally, he reaches a conclusion that, without EQ, IQ alone is worth less and less, which in turn reemphasizes the role of EQ. 下一页

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Back 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.

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Part I (Paras. 1-3) Part II Part III Part IV For details Back Main idea? According to some new research, EQ, compared with IQ, renders businessmen more adaptable and more able to succeed. Under the changing pressure of the market, therefore, it is the hot ticket for business success. Devices for developing it? General-specific (总分法)

For details Back • General statement: • The most valuable contribution for employees to make is not knowledge but judgment, which involves something of a sixth sense, a high performance of the mind. • Specific details: • The book Emotional Intelligence says that the latest scientific findings prove that intelligent but inflexible people in our age don’t have the adaptive ability. • According to Time magazine, emotions may be the true measure of human intelligence. This part is organized in a general-specific manner to illustrate the significance of EQ for employees in the world of business. 返回

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Part I Part II (Paras. 4-8) Part III Part IV For details Back Main idea? Since EQ is the key to business success, four skills are listed for individuals to cultivate it. Devices for developing it? Listing (列举法)

For details Back If EQ is the hot ticket for business success, here is a LIST of four adaptive skills to cultivate EQ. 1. Raising consciousness. Raise your consciousness by catching yourself in the act of thinking; take note of _____________________________ and ask whether you are facing facts or avoiding them. 4. Integrating the perspectives of others. Learning to incorporate others’ useful perspectives is _______________________ ____________________. When some one interprets something differently, consider it __________________. 2. Using imagery. Set aside time each day and imagine with passion, with your eyes closed, about ________ ______________. 3. Considering and reconsidering events to choose the most creative response to them. When something important happens, ______________________________________________, even crazy ones. Then go with the interpretation most supportive of your dreams. By applying listing to the development of this part, the author makes the four adaptive skills clear at a glance. what you want to achieve nothing less than a form of enlarging your senses what you are thinking and feeling assign as many interpretations to it as possible a gift of perception 返回

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Part I Part II Part III (Paras. 9-12) Part IV For details Back Main idea? It is possible to cultivate EQ through the improvement of four adaptive skills, because they are based on the mechanisms of the mind. So long as you have a discipline for practicing the skills, it is actually easier than overcoming a drug habit. Devices for developing it? Explanation (解释法)

Back (Para. 10) The mind, we now know, is not confined to the brain but is distributed throughout the body’s universe of cells. (Para. 11) We are “biologically wired” with our own “world view”. Everyone sees the world in a unique way as their experience has molded their thinking. For details (Para. 9) Keep at it, however, because they are based on what we’re learning about the mechanisms of the mind. Explanation is used in this part to confirm the practicability of cultivating EQ by practicing the four skills mentioned in Part II. This makes very convincing the proposal of “keep at it”. (Para. 12) With a discipline, however, we can change our world view, thus improving our skills. 返回

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Part I Part II Part III Part IV (Para. 13) Back Main idea? Without EQ, academic training alone is worth less and less. Devices for developing it? In this small part, the notable feature is the use of metaphor: emotional maturity and self-knowledge being the software, and academic training the hardware.

III.Expressions & Patterns B. Patterns for you to use as models A. Expressions • to raise questions about sth. • to have the right stuff • to sort through • to be the true measure of… • the hot ticket for success • to embrace a highly personal practice • >more • Typical patterns for revealing interrelations between things • Typical patterns for advancing one’s advice • >more

III.Expressions & Patterns Back • to go with the interpretation • to integrate the perspectives of others • nothing less than • to reflect on sth. • to pull sb. away from doing sth. • to keep at sth. • to trigger a brain response • to shape one’s senses • to need a discipline for doing sth. • to escapethe conditioned confines of your past • in the act of doing sth. • to take note of • to do sth. in one’s mind • to dream with passion about sth. • to choose the most creative response to sth. • to assign many interpretations to

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 1. 提出了关于······的问题 • to raise questions about sth. (L. 5) 活学活用将这些劣质或被污染的食品的公开曝光使人们对食品卫生产生了新的担忧。 Public exposure of the bad or contaminated foods raised new fears about food sanitation. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 2. 具有······才能/素质 • to have the right stuff (for/to do)… (L. 7) 活学活用没有人天生就有顶尖成功者的素质；而关键在于其后天所学得的知识和技能。 No one is born with the right stuff for a top achiever; what matters lies in his/her acquired knowledge and skills. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 3. 整理······；捡出······ • to sort through… (L. 9) 活学活用在信息爆炸的时代，能从大量信息中找出所需信息，这本身就是财富。 In the age of information explosion, it is wealth itself to sort through masses of sources and sort out the needed. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 4. 是衡量······的真正尺度 • to be the true measure of… (L. 10) 活学活用实践是检验知识的真正尺度。 Practice is the true measure of knowledge. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 5. 走向成功的通行证 • the hot ticket for success (L. 15) 活学活用在过去十年中， MBA证书是美好事业前程的通行证。如今，它已不如以前炙手了。 In the last decade, an MBA diploma was the hot ticket for a bright prospect in career. Now, it begins to cool down. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 6. 积极进行自我训练 • to embrace a highly personal practice (L. 18) 活学活用要想成功的话，一个人应该积极地进行自我训练，而不是随大流混日子。 In order to succeed one has to embrace a highly personal practice and not to go with the tide and fool around. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 7. 摆脱往事带来的种种限制 • to escape the conditioned confines of your past (L. 24) 活学活用她的故事证明,创造性的关键取决于能否冲破固有知识的限制。 Her story has born out the truth that the key to being creative depends on whether or not to break through the confines of one’s existing knowledge. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 8. 正在做某事时 • in the act of doing (sth.) (L. 25) 活学活用真是说曹操曹操就到；大家正在夸你能干，你就来了。 Just as the saying goes, you can hear the fluttering of an angel’s wing in the act of mentioning him. As we are praising your capabilities, you come on the scene. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 9. 注意；注意到 • take note/notice of… (L. 26) 活学活用注意他人身上的优点并克服自身的缺点，你会天天向上。 Take notice of the merits in others and get rid of the demerits in yourself and you will make progress every day. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 10. 在头脑中做某事 • to do sth. in one’s mind (L. 29) 活学活用一味空想，不干实事，注定一无所获。 It is bound to gain nothing to act only in your mind and do no down-to-earth work. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 11. 带着激情想象一番某事 • to dream with passion about sth. (L. 31) 活学活用人们发现，不时地带着激情想象你生活中光明的一面极有助于你未来的成功。 It turns out that occasionally dreaming with passion about the bright side of your life goes a long way towards your success in the future. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 12. 对某事作出最富创意的反应 • to choose the most creative response to sth. (L. 34) 活学活用一般说来，你对周围事物作出的反应可以表明你的生活态度。 In general, what response you choose to the things around you can serve as an indication of your attitude towards life. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 13. 多方面看问题；从多个角度解释某事 • to assign many interpretations to sth. (L. 34) 活学活用从尽可能多的角度看待自己遇到的问题，就可能找到最佳的解决方案。 By assigning as many interpretations to one’s problem as possible, one is likely to hit upon the best solution to it. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 14. 照着那种理解去做 • to go with the interpretation (L. 35) 活学活用她一会儿这么说，一会儿那么说，搞得大家无所适从。 She spoke differently on different occasions so that everybody got confused, not knowing what to go with. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 15. 综合考虑/吸纳别人的看法 • to integrate/incorporate the perspectives of others (L. 37; L. 38) 活学活用企业在进行重大决策时要综合考虑各方意见，既有董事的意见，也有员工的意见。 In critical decision-making, an enterprise needs to incorporate the ideas of all sides, including employees as well as directors. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 16. 简直就是；无异于 • nothing less than (L. 39) 活学活用对商界而言，以诚信为代价牟取暴利无异于自掘坟墓。 As far as the business world is concerned, seeking big profits at the cost of honesty is nothing less than a form of bringing ruin upon itself. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 17. 考虑；沉思 • to reflect on/upon (L. 41) 活学活用值得深思的是，这位清华园的年轻厨师在托福考试中何以考得630分。 What is worth reflecting on is how the young cook from Tsinghua University got 630 points in TOEFL test. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 18. 妨碍某人做某事 • to pull sb. away from doing sth. (L. 42) 活学活用妨碍这个学生进步的正是他的不良习惯和缺乏毅力。 What pulls the student away from moving forward is nothing but his bad habit and lack of perseverance. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 19. 继续做某事；坚持干某事 • to keep at sth. (L. 43) 活学活用只要你坚持你的追求，幸运女神会不期而至。 As long as you keep at what you are striving after, the Goddess of Luck will drop in unexpectedly. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 20. 激发大脑的反应 • to trigger a brain response (L. 47) 活学活用常常只有刻骨铭心的痛才会使人顿悟自己生活中一去不复返的东西的意义。 More often than not, it is the pain engraved on one’s mind that can trigger one’s sudden insight into the meaning of what has gone out of one’s life for ever. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 21. 影响着人的感知 • to shape one’s senses (L. 48) 活学活用近期的一次问卷调查表明，大众媒介左右着公众对时事的看法。 A recent questionnaire suggests that mass media shape public opinions on current events. 下一页上一页

How to Cultivate “EQ”