Emotional Intelligence

Description

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. Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work. The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Emotional Intelligence could not come at a better time—we spend so much of our time online, more and more jobs are becoming automated and digitized, and our children are picking up new technology faster than we ever imagined. With a new introduction from the author, the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition prepares readers, now more than ever, to reach their fullest potential and stand out from the pack with the help of EI.

First Sentence

Ponder the last moments of Gary and Mary Jane Chauncey, a couple completely devoted to their eleven-year-old daughter Andrea.

Description

Is IQ destiny? Not nearly as much as we think. Daniel Goleman's landmark international bestseller argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, ignoring a crucial range of abilities that matter immensely in terms of how we do in life. Now, more than a decade after the book's initial publication, the term "emotional intelligence" has become part of our daily language.

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Other Editions

• Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQHardcoverBantam Books2006-09-26
• Emotional intelligenceBantam Books1995-01-01
• Emotional intelligencePaperbackBantam Books1995-01-01
• Emotional intelligenceBantam1995-01-01
• Emotional IntelligenceAudio CassetteAudio Renaissance1995-11-15
• Emotional intelligenceBloomsbury1996-01-01