Unlike IQ, emotional intelligence is something we can develop with practice and times. 【小题1】

Here are some ways to improve emotional intelligence.

One of the first steps in improving your EQ is paying attention to your body language. 【小题2】 What do you instinctively (本能地) do when you get bad news? A lot of people will clench their fists, tighten their breathing, and tense up their shoulders. Release the tension consciously and take control of your breath.

【小题3】 It’s not only a good release, but can help you understand more details about how you came to feel a certain way.

Pause before reacting and put yourself into the other person’s place. How would you feel in his or her position? What could be a possible reason for their behavior? 【小题4】 It helps diffuse (化解) many situations while also making us better negotiators.

【小题5】 Active listening is a deliberate attempt to not only hear what someone is saying, but to understand it. This sounds simple enough, but many people will nod to give the impression listening, but will actually just be waiting to reply or ignore the other person altogether.

Those with low EQ will impulsively start talking about themselves every chance they get, no matter what the topic is. For active listening, try to build a conversation, which can promote mutual understanding.

It’s said that today more than $400 billion a year is spent on advertising worldwide.【小题1】 No wonder, it is widely recognized that the global economy is heavily being driven by advertisements.

【小题2】 The advertisers will first of all single out(选择)the market. That is, they need to determine who will buy the product. Then, they will work out the best way to appeal to this market. So they will take into consideration a number of desires or worries the target consumers may have.【小题3】That is, they will study what words and images their advertisement contains and what slogans they plan to make use of. They will also consider employing famous people and using scientific data to support the product.

In everyday life consumers have seen lots of successful examples of advertisements. For example, Nike, Coca-Cola, and McDonald’s,【小题4】 One soap company had all its advertisements show dirty clothes the left, its box of soap in the middle, and clean clothes on the right. Then it started its advertising programme in the Middle East. Unfortunately, since Arabic speakers read Arabic from the right to the left, many viewers when seeing the ad, thought to themselves, “Why this soap makes clothes dirty!”

Therefore, advertisers have to be aware of cultural differences when they want to carry out an international advertising programme in a foreign country.【小题5】

Change is with us from the day we are born and change is all around us every day. 【小题1】 This difference comes from the fact that we don’t all experience changes in the same way. So, what can we young people do in face of some changes?

We young people aren’t always ready to deal with changes. That’s because our young brains are still growing. The back part of our brain is all about survival and keeping us alive. The middle of our brain controls our emotions. 【小题2】

There are times when we young people feel stressed, when changes get hard to manage, or when it is just too hard for us to collect our thoughts. 【小题4】 That may be a parent or carer, grandparent, aunt or uncle, teacher, neighbor or even an older brother or sister. Change can sometimes be hard or make you worry, but you don’t have to do it alone.

【小题5】 By meeting changes and trying new things, we’ll begin to discover what we really love. As we learn more about ourselves, we’ll make better decisions about our life and future. This can help us discover our path in life.