How To Enjoy Your Life & Your Job Quiz

1. A good way to get people to cooperate in your ideas, is to let the other person feel that idea is

Important

His or hers

Impossible

Good

2. Professor Overstreet's advised, "First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a(n) __________."

Exciting path

Lonely way

Long way

None of the above

"What's in it for me?" is perhaps a question not always asked out loud but is often a matter of concern. Whether an accepted notion or taboo, the truth is that man's every action is always triggered by something he desires. Thus, to entice anyone to take your side or to agree to your idea, underscores the advantages for the other person given the circumstances. Encourage people to express their self-importance. Motivate each individual to drum up a good idea and credit him or her for the initiative. Bring forth the chance for them to see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. This way, your reasons will be honored and your will win everyone over. You will sell every product, accomplish your every goal and end up the big winner.

Explanation

"What's in it for me?" is perhaps a question not always asked out loud but is often a matter of concern. Whether an accepted notion or taboo, the truth is that man's every action is always triggered by something he desires. Thus, to entice anyone to take your side or to agree to your idea, underscores the advantages for the other person given the circumstances. Encourage people to express their self-importance. Motivate each individual to drum up a good idea and credit him or her for the initiative. Bring forth the chance for them to see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. This way, your reasons will be honored and your will win everyone over. You will sell every product, accomplish your every goal and end up the big winner.

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4. French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote: "I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what ________________________."

Others think of him

He decides to do

He thinks of himself

Others make of it

5. Alfred Adler, a psychologist, wrote a book entitled What Life Should Mean to You. In that book he says: "It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring."

True

False

6. Charles Schwab said, "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement."

True

False

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8. What are the Ways to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment?

Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly

Talk about your own mistakes first

Don't give orders - motivate!

Let the other person save face

All of the above

None of the above

9. Relax in odd moments, work as much as possible, check yourself four or five times a day and test yourself again at the end of the day.

True

False

10. To help prevent fatigue and worry:

Clear your desk of all the papers except those relating to the immediate problem.

Do things in the order of their importance.

Don't keep putting off decisions.

Learn to organize, deputize and supervise.

All of the above

11. "I had the blues because I had no shoes, until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet." What meaning can be taken away from this quote?

Be prepared to help others

Always be considerate of others

Count your blessings--not your troubles!

Always carry shoes with you

12. A sure way to make enemies is to tell someone they're wrong. Instead, use diplomacy and _____________________.

Argue your point

Show respect for the other person's opinion

Explain why the other person is wrong

Ignore the person

If you win an argument, chances are you also acquired an enemy. If you have proven yourself to be right, you would also have declared the other person wrong. Direct blows at people's intelligence and pride are the ingredients to a great war. To avoid conflict, abandon an argument simply by engaging diplomacy in showing respect for other people's opinions ahead of presenting your own. An attach at people's self-esteems will instigate a strike back. On the other hand, dexterity will lead you to say that the reason you know they're wrong is that you have been wrong once yourself. Then you easily avoid creating an enemy.

Explanation

If you win an argument, chances are you also acquired an enemy. If you have proven yourself to be right, you would also have declared the other person wrong. Direct blows at people's intelligence and pride are the ingredients to a great war. To avoid conflict, abandon an argument simply by engaging diplomacy in showing respect for other people's opinions ahead of presenting your own. An attach at people's self-esteems will instigate a strike back. On the other hand, dexterity will lead you to say that the reason you know they're wrong is that you have been wrong once yourself. Then you easily avoid creating an enemy.

13. Showing genuine interest in others not only wins friends for you, but may develop in its customers a loyalty to your company.

True

False

14. In "If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive," what three things are important to remember?

Don't criticize

Don't condemn

Don't complain

Don't yell

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15. Do the very best you can, and then put up your old umbrella and keep the rain of _____ from running down the back of your neck.

If you are being criticized, do not flatter yourself by thinking you are unique in this aspect. Everyone gets a fare shake. What sets one apart is the ability not to let unjust condemnation take effect. The greatest feat of all is to be able to relieve oneself of useless loads and simply laugh off harmful criticism. No great man or woman in any history was ever spared from unjust criticism. Criticism is a great leveler. You might find it absurd, wasting your time taking these jibes and insults, and go so far as to claim it is your curse alone. It is amazing how this kind of notoriety is over the minute your decide to ignore it.

Explanation

If you are being criticized, do not flatter yourself by thinking you are unique in this aspect. Everyone gets a fare shake. What sets one apart is the ability not to let unjust condemnation take effect. The greatest feat of all is to be able to relieve oneself of useless loads and simply laugh off harmful criticism. No great man or woman in any history was ever spared from unjust criticism. Criticism is a great leveler. You might find it absurd, wasting your time taking these jibes and insults, and go so far as to claim it is your curse alone. It is amazing how this kind of notoriety is over the minute your decide to ignore it.

Submit

17. In How to Make People Instantly Like You, it is important to

Treat others the way you would like to be treated

Make the other person feel important--and do it sincerely

Express appreciation

All of the above

18. Lincoln said, "It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men, if you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart; which, say what you will, is ______________."

Extremely negative

The positive way to view things

Most important thing in life

The great high road to his reason

19. In The Big Secret of Dealing with People, John Dewey, one of America's philosophers said the deepest urge in human nature 'is the desire to be' what?

Appreciated

Important

Understood

Accepted

Complimenting people actually boosts their morale. One should never hurt other anticipating a change in them. Rather practice giving sincere appreciation.

Explanation

Complimenting people actually boosts their morale. One should never hurt other anticipating a change in them. Rather practice giving sincere appreciation.

20. Socrates asked questions with which his opponents would have to agree. The basis for this method, called the "Socratic Method," is to _______________.

Emphasize the things on which you agree

Get the other person saying "yes"

'He who treads softly goes far'

All of the above

21. "There is a time in every man's education when her arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." This excerpt is taken from Emerson's essay on what?

Self-Reliance

Self-Awareness

Self-Confidence

Self-Righteousness

22. In Chapter 6, Remember No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog, unjust criticism is often a disguised ____________.

Insult

Lesson

Value

Compliment

23. "When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity." This excerpt was taken from The Big Secret of Dealing With People, true or false?

True

False