Emotional Intelligence : Why it can matter more than IQ

Rating:
Summary: How dumb are you?
Review: Do you blow your top like the steam-driven trains of old? Do you feel pity for someone who trips and falls flat on his face or do you laugh your head off? Are you the life of the party or does everyone try to avoid you like the plague? These and many other intriguing questions of the sort will not be answered by this book. However, you'll get an idea about why such questions do matter in life. Everyone goes through life assuming he or she is intelligent, that is, until someone else proves otherwise. In this amazing work, the author succeeds in making you realize just how dumb you are. Hold your horses! He doesn't consider himself the nerd of the universe. Rather, he points out that there's such a thing as an intelligence of the emotions. Being an intellectual doesn't necessarily mean that you're intelligent emotionally. Why bother about being so? So many things in life depend on it. He makes you aware that your emotional stupidity is due to your parents. While that can't be undone, at least you can look forward to not committing the same mistakes. Take my word for it: it's worth the time reading.

Rating:
Summary: Brainy is not bright
Review: As a very brainy boy and young man in school and college I thought my future would be bright; FALSE, it came to be mediocre. Why? Because I wasn't emotionally intelligent. After reading this book my life is improving rapidly. I highly recommend it

Rating:
Summary: Being Book-Smart Does Not Translate to Success!
Review: Being intellectually smart is surely a strong advantage in our society, but it doesn't say nearly as much as your control and awareness over your own emotions. Have you ever wondered why you have emotions, how your brain works to process them, and how you can use them to your own advantage? Can you control your impulsive desire to have instant gratification in order to work toward a more worthwhile long-term goal? Have you ever wondered what exactly causes your own innocent child to somehow grow up to be a rapist or a sociopath? Regardless of your lifestyle, whether you're a career person, a homemaker, a young college student, or a retired senior citizen, this book offers you an enormous variety of invaluable, fact-based information which is sure to help you with your relationships, your family, your career, and most important, knowing yourself. It is the critical education that everybody needs, yet virtually nobody receives in any formal way

Rating:
Summary: A book that could change our lives, our children, our world!
Review: Goleman provides information essential for anyone with children, who teaches children, who knows children, and for those who wish to understand themselves better. The information presented in this book clearly illustrates that intelligience goes far beyond what society has always presented in the terms of "IQ" and shows that a realistic matter of determining what intelligience truly is depends on the ability to understand, acknowledge, and use social and emotional skills. As an educator and psychotherapist, I feel this book is outstanding and can be used on all levels, from beginners to advanced practioners, as a guide in understanding our emotional and social states and to provide our children with the skills required to succeed in life and perhaps change the world. What we have always considered as "intelligience" still remains to be important, but we must know that there is much more to it and Goleman gives us a book to provide us with a starting point. It is a must read!!!!!

Rating:
Summary: Important traits other than IQ that promote success in life
Review: This book is not just for professionals. It is clearly written with many interesting real-life examples of traits other than IQ that help people to be successful in relationships and occupations, and how parents can foster those traits in their children. If you read The Bell Curve, you should read Emotional Intelligence for a more balanced view. Essential reading for parents, teachers, and anyone interested in human nature

Rating:
Summary: Must reading if you are interested in the future of the human race
Review: This a book which makes clear the suddenly obvious central truth of being human -- we are emotional creatures first and last.Suddenly, it seems obvious that how we deal with this fact is -- after all is said and done-- the sole determiner of the quality of our lives. However, Goleman also brings together an authoritative array of research which "connects up the dots" of many separate fields of science. The picture of our selves and our society which emerges makes plain what, somehow, was not -- we need to learn what emotions are, how they work, and what skills we lack, and what those skills can accomplish. I think it is fair to say that there is no one who could not learn something seminal from this book, and those who deal with society -- educators and lawyers -- yes, lawyers -- should lead the pack in reading it. Thirty-three weeks on the best seller list says that we are hungry for this information. Thank you, Daniel Goleman

Rating:
Summary: Emotional Intelligence Quickbook
Review: For a quick read on emotional intelligence using Daniel Goleman's model, check out Bradberry and Greaves' "Emotional Intelligence Quickbook". It tells me everything I need to know about this hot topic.

Rating:
Summary: Yes, but ....
Review: I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I think Goleman has made a good case for broadening our view of "intelligence" to encompass more than what is measured by an IQ test. And I strongly agree with him that we need to educate children emotionally as well as intellectually.
On the other hand, both the author and the journalists who have written about his findings have used them to support a false dichotomy: EQ is the opposite of IQ, highly intelligent people are emotional idiots, and so forth. He quotes, ad nauseam, the story of a high school student who, when his teacher gave him a B instead of the A he thought he deserved, shot the teacher. This perpetuates the stereotype that gifted children are lacking in EQ, which other studies have shown is NOT the case -- in fact, they tend to be hyper-responsible, sensitive to the feelings and wishes of others, and prone to blame themselves rather than others when things go wrong in their lives (gifted teenagers commit suicide at a higher rate than average teenagers).
Gifted children have it hard enough already: they're considered "nerds" and "freaks" by their peers, and expected to be perfect at everything by their parents and teachers; but they're not supposed to have problems (in or out of school) because, after all, they're GIFTED. Labeling them (falsely) as emotionally deficient, and asserting that there's some fundamental conflict between IQ and EQ, just makes things even harder for them.

Rating:
Summary: You have to try the Emotional Intelligence PowerPoint!
Review: I bought the book along with the recommended Emotional Intelligence PowerPoint, which is just a terrific resource! It's a complete presentation on emotional intelligence (which saved me a lot of work) but the great thing is it plays movie clips right from the presentation to illustrate each of the emotional intelligence skills. My audience really grasped the concept and was entertained enough to give me 100% of their attention for the full hour. Really great!

Rating:
Summary: Intelligence Comes in Different Forms, not just IQ
Review: Daniel Goleman refers to "a growing body of evidence showing that success in school depends to a surprising extent on emotional characteristics formed in the years BEFORE a child enters school." Having been a preschool teacher for many years, I must agree. So much of what determines how a child is going to fit into the world depends on his strengths (not weaknesses) along with his degree of self-esteem (not necessarily his IQ or SAT scores). This book is a must for all parents, especially those who feel their child simply does not compare to the "kid next door"...you know, the one who seems to be good at everything. Although that may be true, Goleman says that by nuturing and teaching to the Emotional Intelligence and strengths of your child, the chance of success in future years will be increased. ALL children have the ability to accomplish goals. Maybe your child is extremely good in his interpersonal skills--well-liked by his peers and blessed with the gift of gab and a great sense of humor. These are perfect qualities for a successful salesman. The fact that a child does not test well in math or written English skills and has a very average IQ is not directly significant in how successful he will become as a salesman. Those kids that excel in the arts may enjoy huge success in a career as an actor, artist, film producer, or photographer, especially if his Emotional Intelligence is high. In addition to giving a child unconditional love, I feel it is our job as good parents to identify our children's strengths in the early years and give them plenty of chances to experience challenges, accomplishment, and joy in those areas. Along with this excellent theoretical book, I highly recommend for those of you who have young children, another very practical book called "The Pocket Parent." This quick-read A-Z guide will give you many specific strategies for increasing the "emotional intelligence" of your 2- to 5-year-old through better daily communication and positive discipline. By following the advice of these two books, you will help your child learn how to better interact with others, solve problems, and develop empathy, while maintaining a good sense of self-worth just the way s/he is.