The article focuses on how to cultivate “EQ”. EQ is the short form for emotional quotient, which means to use emotion as a measure of human intelligence. That is one of the hot topics today.
The article can be broadly divided into five main parts: an argument that EQ is the hot ticket for business success; a transitional paragraph leading to the question of how to cultivate EQ; a list of four adaptive skills; an argument that EQ can be cultivated and the conclusion of the essay. 
1. The first part is made up of 3 paragraphs, from Paragraph 1 to Paragraph 3. Paragraph 1 puts forward the author’s argument that 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. Paragraphs 2 and 3 are supporting paragraphs for the argument. Paragraph 2 cites from the book Emotional Intelligence to say that the latest scientific findings prove that intelligent but inflexible people in our age don’t have the adaptive ability. Paragraph 3 quotes current thinking on intelligence reported by Time magazine: emotions may be the true measure of human intelligence. An example has been provided to illustrate the point.
2. The second part is one paragraph only, Paragraph 4, a transitional paragraph. Since it is proved that judgment and successful decisions are based largely on EQ not IQ, then how can we cultivate it? The question leads to a modest proposal consisting of four adaptive skills that will be detailed in the following 4 paragraphs.
3. The third part consists of four paragraphs, containing a list of four skills recommended with each paragraph dealing with one of them. Paragraph 5 is about raising consciousness, Paragraph 6 about using imagery, Paragraph 7 about considering and reconsidering events to choose the most creative response to them and Paragraph 8 about integrating the perspectives of others. Each skill suggested has been supported by details.
4. The fourth part has 4 paragraphs, from Paragraph 9 to Paragraph 12. This part argues that it is possible to develop or cultivate EQ. Paragraph 9 argues that though the force of habit will pull us away from these skills, we will succeed if we keep at it as these skills are based on the mechanisms of the mind. Paragraphs 10 and 11 are about the mechanisms of the mind. The human brain grows rapidly until we reach maturity. The body has about a hundred billion nerve cells, and every experience triggers a brain response that literally shapes our senses. The mind is not confined to the brain but is distributed throughout the body’s universe of cells. Our own “world view” is “biologically wired” during our teenage years, but every one sees the world in a unique way as their experience molded their thinking. Paragraph 12 tells us that changing our world view is easier than overcoming a drug habit. What we need is a discipline for doing it.
5. The fifth part is only one paragraph, which comes to the conclusion that without EQ, academic training alone is worth less and less.
