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Summary: Excellent and Insightful Read
Review: Amazingly insightful and well-researched look at our emotions. Goleman offers many insights into how our mind works and how emotions play a role in thinking, learning and maintaining your health. Good solutions also for managing the destructive demons that enter the mind. Worth triple the price !!
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Summary: A good point for an original idea
Review: The concept, the naming, most of this book is original except in the sense that it may be a little too dogmatic. An idea (like this one) may be great, but too much love for an idea results in fanaticism. True, emotional IQ may be a new way to measure IQ, but by no means this is the last stand of psychology. The question of good and evil is next, as in the Road Less Traveled. Social skills and emotional ability are not everything, just like intelligence wasn't everything for the previous enlightened. Stay tuned...
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Summary: This book has potential to help, but needs more information.
Review: I was impressed with the covered informtion and feel the book has some usefulness. what is lacking appears to be the generalities that can apply to all people of different cultures and backgrounds.
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Summary: Unconvicing and unenlightening, when not obvious
Review: Derivative and superficial. The folksy examples starting each section are primitive. Prescriptive parts are dubious, such as the "Self-science" class for fifth-graders: no grades, "sophisticated" notions like: anger is derivative from jealousy. So, why not call it psychology and give grades? Some underlying assumptions seem dubious, such as one about "natural" empathetic tendencies being occluded by cruelty (is it supposed to be less "natural" than empathy?). The role of heredity may be wishfully understated or avoided throughout. Besides, is IQ - a general ability to deal with complexity - really altogether uncorrelated with the ability to analyze complex human emotions, your own included??
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Summary: It was very emotional fulfilling.
Review: I was stunned after reading it. Realizing all this information that people just don't get it. I myself can really say that it opened so many doors in my life that it is a keeper. I highlighted so many little important factors. He really gave great examples and the way he showed me how much I know and how much I don't know and that people blame other people way to much. Its just so important that we think of the children and really raise them to the fullest. Its time to take responsibilities for ourselves. Thank you Daniel Goleman for sharing. Sincerely, Juline
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Summary: Personally Challenging and Motivating for Postive Change
Review: This is an excellent and thorough overview of the dynamics of emotional maturity and responsibility. I can't wait to finish the next book, "Working with Emotional Intelligence." Thank you Dr. Goleman and your staff for all the research and hard work. This work will continue to impact our world in the coming decade.
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Summary: The marshmellow test has forever changed my perspective.
Review: Goleman takes on a topic that has too often been ignored in traditional education. His work is not only informative at the personal level, but also extends to the sociological level. In the first pages he argues that the lack of empathy & self-regulation (delayed gratification) within individuals lead to alienation and violence in our society. An essential book for those who play a pivotal role in the growth of a child or those who want to enhance their own emotional health.
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Summary: Excellent. Well-researched. Accurate.
Review: This book very accurately describes what else predicts career success besides just IQ.I have worked with many high IQ professionals; some are very effective, some aren't. I was surprised by some of the negative Amazon reader reviews. Many seem to say Goleman says IQ is the opposite of emotional intelligence. He doesn't. He just says EI is an additional, and often more important, component of success. We try to evaluate both when hiring people where I work.
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Summary: The true road to the unconscious has been found
Review: Daniel Goleman has produced, to my mind, the single most important book on emotional development and personal growth in the past three decades. The book stands out not only for the clarity of content, but for the contribution it makes to understanding why it is that we feel sudden emotion without any idea of where it came from and how we can help children develop into healthier, happier adults. It is the only book I've recommended to my peers, my students and my patients. I have, in fact, made it MUST READING for my doctoral psychology students. Dr. Patricia A. Farrell
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Summary: Lies, lies and more lies
Review: People with low I.Q.s do not succeed in life, no matter what other people say. The "Emotional Intelligence" is an extremely ridiculous concept, made by a fool to give other fools some hope.
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