Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, orvirtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology andneuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—therational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny. Butwhy is emotional intelligence important? Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman showsthe 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 beingsmart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhoodexperiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthenedthroughout our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, ourrelationships, and our work. The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Emotional Intelligence could notcome at a better time—we spend so much of our time online, more and morejobs are becoming automated and digitized, and our children are pickingup new technology faster than we ever imagined. With a new introductionfrom the author, the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition prepares readers, now more than ever, to reach their fullest potential and stand out fromthe pack with the help of EI.
