Emotional Intelligence is a good book by author Daniel Goleman.
Is IQ destiny? This compelling and persuasive show argues that our view of human intelligence is too narrow, ignoring a host of critical abilities that are crucial to how we perform in life. Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Daniel Goleman pinpoints the factors at work when people with high IQs and people with modest IQs do well. These factors make up another way to be intelligent, one of what he calls “emotional intelligence”. This includes self-awareness and impulse control, perseverance, enthusiasm and self-motivation, empathy, and social ingenuity.
These are the qualities that mark people who excel in life, who have sublime relationships, they are the stars in the workplace. Lack of emotional intelligence can sabotage your intellect and ruin your career.
Perhaps the greatest harm is in children, whose risk factors include depression, eating disorders, unintended pregnancy, aggression and crime. But news is hope. Emotional intelligence is not fixed at birth. The author shows how its important qualities can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us.
