About that Score
4th October 2005
This morning while blog-hopping I came across the EQ (Emotional Intelligence) Quotient test, and decided to spend 5 minutes completing it. Unsurprisingly, I came back with a high score (which blogger doesn’t feel that rush of ego-boosting adrenaline when faced with a favorable survey score even if it is not quite true?), but truth be told, I had a hard time filling in the answers to that test!
I mean, to most of the questions I encountered, I needed a third, sometimes a fourth answer! Because I had to choose between the only two options available, I chose the one that most likely describe my situation but in reality I cannot even say 51% of the time though, because the phrase “well… it depends…” came up in my mind so often!
Later on in the day, I was having a conversation with my colleagues, and I told them I had taken such a test only this morning and I came so close to Dr Phil it was scary! One of my colleagues immediately said, “Well that’s just like you, though!” So, although I have vindication and sort of validation, I still don’t think I am really that high in my EQ score. Unless of course it is some kind of average, and it is a comparative/subjective kind of scoring. Perhaps just as IQ tests do not measure all of a person’s intelligences, so also does EQ not measure all of a person’s emotional intelligence.
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