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Six Steps to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

Ramona Hacker · TEDxTUM · 15 questions

Watch the video, then explore its subject through concept questions and everyday examples. This companion quiz includes applications and supporting reading; it is not a verbatim transcript test.

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1. What does emotional intelligence involve?A. Recognizing and working with emotional informationB. Never feeling emotionC. Always pleasing othersD. Controlling everyone's feelings

2. Which first step supports understanding a feeling?A. Deny itB. Notice and acknowledge itC. Blame another personD. Act immediately

3. Which description is more precise?A. Everything is badB. I feel stuffC. I notice disappointment and worryD. I am simply defective

4. Which question explores context?A. Who must fix me?B. How do I prove my worth?C. How do I avoid every feeling?D. What happened, and what did I make of it?

5. What is useful before an impulsive reply?A. Pause and consider your next actionB. Send it immediatelyC. Demand agreementD. Ignore consequences

6. Which response distinguishes feeling from action?A. Anger requires aggressionB. I can feel anger and choose a respectful responseC. Worry requires withdrawalD. Every feeling is a command

7. What does empathy involve?A. Agreeing with everythingB. Guessing with certaintyC. Considering another person's experienceD. Taking over their decisions

8. How can you check an interpretation of another person's emotion?A. Assume you knowB. Judge their characterC. Insist on your guessD. Ask respectfully and listen

9. Which feedback request supports learning?A. How did my response come across?B. Tell me I am always rightC. Never criticize meD. Confirm my superiority

10. Which way of receiving feedback is useful?A. Treat it as a verdict on your worthB. Consider the specific observation before decidingC. Accept every claim automaticallyD. Reject it immediately

11. What helps turn awareness into a skill?A. Insight alone foreverB. Waiting for perfect calmC. Repeated deliberate practiceD. Comparison with others

12. Which conclusion is unrealistic?A. Emotional skills can be practicedB. Feelings can be namedC. Listening can helpD. Emotionally intelligent people never struggle

13. Which action supports an honest conversation?A. Describe your experience without assuming the other's intentionB. Accuse them of causing everythingC. Demand they feel the sameD. Avoid all questions

14. You misread someone's reaction. What is constructive?A. Defend the guess foreverB. Acknowledge the error and ask for clarificationC. Condemn yourselfD. Ignore new information

15. What does this score measure?A. Your whole emotional intelligenceB. Your personal worthC. Understanding of this companion exerciseD. A clinical diagnosis

Answer key and explanations

A. Emotional skills involve awareness and deliberate responses.
B. Acknowledgment makes the experience available for examination.
C. Specific words can distinguish different experiences.
D. Events and interpretations provide context.
A. A pause gives you space to choose.
B. A feeling does not dictate a single behavior.
C. Empathy makes room for another perspective.
D. A question is more reliable than treating a guess as certainty.
A. Specific feedback can reveal an effect you missed.
B. You can evaluate feedback without rating your whole self.
C. Practice supports more consistent use of a skill.
D. Skill does not imply a life without difficulty.
A. Describe what you noticed while allowing clarification.
B. Correction is part of learning.
C. A short quiz does not measure a whole person.

Supporting reading

Hacker, R. (2017). Six Steps to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence [Video]. TEDx Talks. Original talk