Three Stories about the Importance of EQ

When discussing with students the following sentence in Unit 5 "True Nobility" :

"In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment."

I told them three stories.

One of the stories was from a former teacher of Jianguo High School. A very smart student of the teacher committed suicide when he was studying in graduate school at NTU. He jumped from the top of a building on campus, with his body burning, which showed that he was determined to die. The reason? His girlfriend left him. The teacher was very sad, wishing he had told the student when he was in his first year that life could not be smooth all the time and that he should be prepared for some difficult moments.

Another story was run in the UDN several years ago. The writer's cousin was dumped by his girlfriend. Instead of feeling too sad or doing something harmful, he reflected on himself and told the writer that there must be some reason for him to lose his girlfriend to another man and that there must be something in the man that he could learn from. What a healthy mentality!

The protagonists in the two stories encountered the same sticky situation. However, with different attitude, they ended up in different ways.

The third story is about a famous EQ research--the marshmallow experiment.

All these stories prove that EQ has a greater effect on our life than IQ does.