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A 25th anniversary edition of the number one, multi-million copy international bestseller that taught us how emotional intelligence is more important than IQ - 'a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea' (Harvard Business Review)

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Does IQ define our destiny? In his groundbreaking bestseller, Daniel Goleman argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow. It is not our IQ, but our emotional intelligence that plays a major role in thought, decision-making and individual success. Self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, motivation, empathy and social deftness: all are qualities that mark people who excel, whose relationships flourish, who can navigate difficult conversations, who become stars in the workplace.

With new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality, Goleman shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us.

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'An impressive argument that excellence is more than IQ' Daily Mail

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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition (20 July 2009)
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DANIEL GOLEMAN is the author of the international bestsellers Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, and Social Intelligence, and the co-author of the acclaimed business bestseller Primal Leadership. His latest books are What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters and The Triple Focus: A New Approach to Education. He was a science reporter for the New York Times, was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and received the American Psychological Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for his media writing. He lives in Massachusetts.

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Ashley

Must read

Reviewed in Australia on 28 February 2020

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This book is a must read, especially the first half. I wish I had read this 10 years ago.

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shirley

Good book, worth to read.

Reviewed in Australia on 2 March 2020

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Good book, worth to read.

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Bob

An Important Book

Reviewed in Australia on 21 April 2016

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The book starts by quoting a challenge laid down by Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics:

"Anyone can become angry – that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – this is not easy."

From that challenge laid down over 2000 years ago Daniel Goleman has written an important book on the human psyche and how people can influence the path of their lives by attention to emotions. Goleman is a science writer who says he was dramatically influenced in 1990 by the work of two psychologists (John Mayer now at University of New Hampshire and Peter Salovey at Yale) who first formulated the concept they called “emotional intelligence”. Goleman set about a major study of research publications in psychology, neurology and childhood development. He published the first edition of Emotional Intelligence in 1996. It became a bestseller and has been reissued and revised several times.

As quite a few studies in the past 20 years have now shown, the brain does not have the fixed architecture, previously assumed. New technologies for brain imaging have revealed how the brain’s intricate mass of cells enables us to think, feel, imagine and dream. We also know that while each brain has a certain structure at birth – a genetic inheritance – that structure can change drastically depending on all the inputs during life’s journey. Most of those inputs have a strong emotional component.

It is surprising that “feeling” has been left out of much of the scientific research on psychology, but is now being clearly recognised that there are significant physiological changes with rising emotions.
There is much more in this book that can’t be covered in a brief summary. It has a big list of references and further reading for each of the chapters. There are some people who might feel it places too much emphasis on mechanical aspects of brain and body. But the reader is left with a feeling of hope for improved cooperation on this earth as more people recognise the importance of emotional intelligence.

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dabchic

Emotional intelligence

Reviewed in Australia on 13 July 2014

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This is a very interesting book which is thought provoking and also helpful in understanding how emotions can control a person rather than understanding what is going on. You have to read it to see that. It takes a lot of studying and it took me a long time to read it but I think it is very helpful for everyone.

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elaine murton

emotional Intelligence

Reviewed in Australia on 2 June 2014

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This book is excellent and explains why we are who we are - It takes some concentration and for me is not a book to read cover to cover as it needs digesting - I take notes as I go for later reference.

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Anthony

I'd love to love it, but it was too hard

Reviewed in Australia on 10 July 2022

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I'm a self-help book groupie. I'm trying to read them all.
This one was so hard. I tried, I really did. I couldn't figure out the story that was being told. I couldn't extract the nuggets of "to-dos" vs things that would be disproven next paragraph. I'm assuming that it for better further in, but I didn't get there.
Also, the font is actually too small. It made it feel even more like a textbook (in a bad way).

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Mark O'Neill

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 14 January 2017

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Insightful.

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NicShef❤️Reading

Interesting and well written

Reviewed in Australia on 31 December 2015

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As this has been considered a psychological classic and it was on top 20 Amazon best sellers I to highly I'd buy it and check it out. I can see how this was a break through in 1995, but elements of the book are found in many different forms of literature now a days and what Daniel Goldman outlines is clearly the blue print for many books that come after his.
This unique 342 page book gives the reader plenty of data, presented in five parts. The chapter titles are indicative of where the author is leading the reader. Such as "The Emotional Brain, The Nature Of Emotional Intelligence, The Nature Of Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence Applied, Windows Of Opportunity, & Emotional Literacy."
Throughout the book he gives relevant and easy to understand examples that go over brain & cultural differences between the sexes, communication, genetics, etc to prove his premise that emotional IQ is often far more important in the individuals & groups success than the traditional intelligence exams can possibly measure.
Its an overall interesting read, though I'm not sure what we do with it. But it's seems obvious, I mean have not most of us known, or heard of people with high IQ's who behave badly due to their lack of emotional intelligence? Or people that have done well in life despite a non-impressive IQ/ academic record?

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Leitura indispensável para a vida

Reviewed in Brazil on 3 February 2024

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É um livro fundamental para a vida de todos nós. Não é um best-seller de autoajuda, mas uma reflexão profunda, assertiva e baseada em pesquisas com rigor científico conduzidas por décadas. É uma leitura transformadora à medida que abre nossos olhos para verdades pouco difundidas ou completamente negligenciadas sobre inteligência emocional, cuja ausência propicia a maior parte dos problemas de relacionamento, de segurança e de saúde nas nossas sociedades contemporâneas.

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Alexander V Marriott

Fascinating, interesting, and important (still falls a little bit short)

Reviewed in the United States on 4 January 2024

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I don't usually find myself buying or reading books labeled "Self-Help." Not that I don't like myself, or consider myself unworthy of help--or beyond the realm of needing help--but I find the books labeled and marketed this way to be largely vapid and boring.

This was not the case with Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence. This is a thoughtful, sober, and careful analysis of specific issues related to character formation and the steady slide of young people in society into a situation of being incapable of articulating, let alone controlling, their passions--as they would have been called in the 18th century--and directing their attentions and efforts in pursuits likely to lead to productive, healthy, and contented lives. What could be more urgent and important?

The book details interesting scientific discoveries, data from studies and experiments, and intelligent and non-pedantic descriptions of complex phenomenon with ease. While offering ideas for solutions, Goleman is never so obnoxious as to pretend that providing training in emotional intelligence to young people will solve all of society's ills. In an age of mass shootings, youth nihilism and despair, and generations lacking the ability to toss their phones aside and pay attention to something for more than two minutes, focusing on a way to drive home the usefulness and almost unlimited upside of character formation (which Goleman concedes is actually what he's talking about at the end) seems a tremendous imperative. While the book begins with philosophy--where the answers ultimately lay--Goleman hopes to avoid that field by keeping the majority of the book in the hard(ish) sciences.

However, if he wishes to succeed in reforming education along the conservative/classical (though thoroughly secular and traditionally liberal) lines he proposes here, he will need to get a bit more explicitly philosophical. There, I fear he will collapse into a heap of utilitarianism and collectivism and squander the good that this book hints towards and wishes to promise.

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Linh Do

Straight to the point

Reviewed in Canada on 28 December 2023

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Love reading this book so much. Thank you!

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great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2023

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Covers the scientific workings of the brain with clarity and precision, clearly distinguishing the functions of the rational and emotional brain. Does this better than any book I have read. Provides great insight into the development of the emotional brain and how to find balance between the two hemispheres. Must read.

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