What is Your Empathy IQ?

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What is Your Empathy IQ?

Take this quiz to measure your level of empathy

Just as intelligence can be measured with an IQ, empathy can also be assessed with an Empathy IQ.

Empathy is when you care about others in both sadness and joy. It is a skill that can be developed through mindful awareness. To avoid empathy overload, it’s important to learn to center and protect yourself and practice ongoing self-care.

The world needs more empathic leaders, parents and people in every profession. Empathy allows you to understand where another person is coming from even if you don’t agree with them. It bridges differences and opens communication with others.

Take the following quiz to determine your level of empathy:

What is Your Empathy IQ?

  1. Are you sensitive to others, care about them, and want to help?
  2. Do you listen with your heart not just your head?
  3. Can you hold space for others to express their emotions?
  4. Can you listen without needing to fix someone’s problem immediately?
  5. Are you capable of the give and take of intimate relationships?
  6. Are you intuitive and sensitive to other’s needs?
  7. Do you care about the greater good, and the wellbeing of Earth?
  • If you answered “yes” to six to seven questions you have an extremely high IQ
  • Responding “yes” to four to five questions you have a high IQ
  • Responding “yes” to two to three questions you have a moderate IQ
  • Responding “yes” to zero to one questions you have a lower IQ

No matter what your IQ is at this point, it’s always possible to develop more empathy. If you are experiencing empathy overload—or if you are empath who absorbs the stress of the world—it’s possible to center and protect yourself. More information in my book “The Empath’s Survival Guide” and “The Empath’s Survival Guide” Online Course.

Judith Orloff, MD is a New York Times bestselling author with the upcoming book The Genius of Empathy: Practical Skills to Heal Yourself, Your Relationships and the World (Foreword by the Dalai Lama). She has also written The Empath’s Survival Guide and Thriving as an Empath, which offers daily self-care tools for sensitive people. She integrates the pearls of conventional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, empathy, energy medicine, and spirituality. Dr. Orloff specializes in treating empaths and highly sensitive people in her private practice and online internationally. Her work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Oprah Magazine, the New York Times and USA Today. Dr. Orloff has spoken at Google-LA, TEDx U.S. and TEDx Asia. More information about Dr. Orloff’s Empathy Training Programs for businesses, The Empath Survival Guide Online Course and speaking schedule at www.drjudithorloff.com.

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