Emotional intelligence and asking questions

Asking questions improves our emotional intelligence (EI) and with improved EI we become better questioners - it's a virtuous cycle.

“Ask questions the other person will enjoy answering.” - Dale Carnegie

Research over the past 50 years suggests people have conversations to accomplish some combination of two major goals: 

• information exchange (learning) and 
• impression management (liking).

Recent research shows asking questions achieves both.