Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman, 1995

Discover why emotional skills like self control and empathy shape success and relationships more than IQ, and can be learned at any age.

17 parts, about 32 minutes to read.

Why read it

Explains how the amygdala can hijack the thinking brain, so a feeling acts before reason has fully registered what is happening
Defines emotional intelligence as five skills, from knowing your own feelings to handling relationships, and shows IQ predicts life success only modestly
Shows the cost of low emotional skill in marriage, work and health, and how schools can teach children to manage anger and empathy

Jon Kabat ZinnProfessor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Impressive in its scope and depth, staggering in its implications, Emotional Intelligence gives us an entirely new way of looking at the root causes of many of the ills of our families and our society.
Warren BennisLeadership scholar and professor at the University of Southern California
Anyone interested in leadership . . . should get a copy of this book. In fact, I recommend it to all readers anywhere who want to see their organizations in the phone book in the year 2001.

Daniel GolemanAmerican psychologist, author and former New York Times science journalist
- Born on 7 March 1946 in Stockton, California.
- He graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College after spending part of his undergraduate years at the University of California at Berkeley.
- He studied clinical psychology at Harvard, where his main mentor was David C. McClelland.
- On a Harvard fellowship he studied the ancient psychologies and meditation practices of Asia in India, and his doctoral research examined meditation as a way of easing stress arousal.
- He covered psychology and related fields for The New York Times for twelve years from 1984.
- His Times essays on brain research were twice short listed for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
- Emotional Intelligence grew out of the research on emotions and the brain he had covered in pieces for the Times.
- In 1993 he cofounded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, which began at the Yale Child Studies Center.

Pushes backBad Therapy
Daniel Goleman argues that schools should teach every child to recognize and manage emotions; Abigail Shrier argues that teaching children without a disorder to inspect and share their feelings may leave them more anxious.