Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman

Bantam Books, 2006 - Psychology - 358 pages

Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"--the rational and the emotional--and how they together shape our destiny.

Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart.

The best news is that "emotional literacy" is not fixed early in life. Every parent, every teacher, every business leader, and everyone interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this compelling vision of human possibility.


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User Review  - hippiechick - LibraryThing

This book is concisely written and hits some very good points on the subject of emotional intelligence. The author reminds us that learning to manage our emotional intelligence is an ongoing, time ...

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User Review  - Kronomlo - LibraryThing

Even though this book came out in 1995, it's still pretty relevant. What would be interesting if the author wrote an updated version of this, using all the new data from neuroscience research, biology ...

Contents

• THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN: 4
• Anatomy of an Emotional Hijacking: 13
• pART: 31
• Know Thyself: 46
• Passions Slaves: 56
• The Master Aptitude: 78
• The Roots of Empathy: 96
• The Social Arts: 111
• pART THREE: 127
• Managing with Heart: 148
• Mind and Medicine: 164
• pArt Four: 187
• Trauma and Emotional Relearning: 200
• Temperament Is Not Destiny: 215
• The Cost of Emotional Illiteracy: 233
• Schooling the Emotions: 261
• What Is Emotion?: 289
• The Neural Circuitry: 297
• The Self Science: 303
• Resources: 311
• Notes: 317
• Acknowledgments: 347

About the author

Daniel Goleman, PH.D. is also the author of the worldwide bestseller Working with Emotional Intelligence and is co-author of Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, written with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee.

Dr. Goleman received his Ph.D. from Harvard and reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for twelve years, where he was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the American Psychological Association's Lifetime Achievement Award and is currently a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science His other books include Destructive Emotions, The Meditative Mind, The Creative Spirit, and Vital Lies, Simple Truths.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Emotional Intelligence; A Bantam book
• Author: Daniel Goleman
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, annotated
• Publisher: Bantam Books, 2006
• ISBN: 055380491X, 9780553804911
• Length: 358 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition; Psychology / Emotions; Self-Help / Emotions; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General