Do you think intelligence leads to success?
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 434.
Do you talk about your job/studies outside work/college?
Where do you see yourself in five years' time?
You get a new job and discover that the local college is running a training course that will be very useful in your work. How do you react?
You are planning a weekend with your family and friends. On Friday afternoon something urgent comes up. What is your reaction?
aYou try to find someone else to do it for you.
b You forget your weekend and get on with what you have to do.
ñ You decide it will have to wait as you already have plans for the weekend.
aYou're not very interested in doing it.
b You decide to do the course even if you have to pay for it yourself.
ñ You will go, but only if your new company pays for it.
aYou'll probably be in the same position as now.
b You hope you'll be in a better position.
ñ You intend to advance your career considerably in the next five years.
a Sometimes.
b Very frequently.
ñ No, I ‘switch off' from work as soon as I can at the end of the day.
a Intelligence alone does not lead to success.
b Yes, you have to be intelligent to be successful in life.
ñ it's a big part of success.
8 One of your colleagues gets promoted. How do you feel? :
a You're a bit jealous.
b You're pleased for your colleague.
ñ You're upset. You want to find out why it wasn't you and what went wrong.
9 Do you believe in the saying ‘practice makes perfect'?
a No, nobody's perfect.
b Yes, the harder you work at things, the better you become.
ñ People don't have enough time to practice things these days.
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