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Summary: Excellent book of Its kind
Review: This is a kind of book realy helpful and whose ideas I desired to share with many persons after reading it. Some sections give the right help that could improve performance and life, e.g. in the workplace and in the family. Some advices even match with Bible advices and these are mostly the kind of things that many desconsider today (think in that airplane crash caused by a dictator personality of the commandant!how many accidents could be avoided by learning from this?) - sorry for my english, I'm mozambican and read in portuguese.
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Summary: A new paradigm for intelligence or... common sense?
Review: Daniel Goleman, the new guru of emotional intelligence claims that he found a new «scientific» paradigm for intelligence. Reading the book it seems more that his paradigm is only common sonse about the human behavior. It's a «ligth analysis» of this complex subject, good if you like talk with a friends about a fashion matter, after a good diner but...without profundity, of course!..
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Summary: Packed with Knowledge!
Review: In this seminal work, Daniel Goleman introduced millions of readers to the concept of emotional intelligence - the amalgamation of psychological skills and traits that he claims accounts for 80% of success in life. Skills like self-awareness and self-motivation are instilled (or destroyed) in childhood, but Goleman claims that even adults can learn them and apply them to marriage, business and education. This book is at its best in making the general case for EI by providing a sound biological underpinning. Although later sections on real-world application cannot keep up in terms of insight, we from getAbstract strongly recommend this important book, which is relevant not only to business life, but to life itself.
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Summary: Good for Parents and educators
Review: Daniel Goleman is, of course, the man who popularized emotional intelligence. His book is an excellent blend of science, anecdotal and real-life examples as well as some suggestions for improvement. However, this book is written as an introduction of the topic of emotional intelligence, it is NOT a how-to and it is not a solution to all our life's problems.The book focuses on building emotional intelligence in children, especially school age. This makes it an ideal read for parents and educators who deal with children between the ages of 3 and 10. In fact, I would say it is VITAL reading for parents since it will probably save the parents, and the children of course, years of agony and heartache. The Book is very well written but don't expect it to solve all your emotional intelligence problems. If you want a more practical and useful guide, read Goleman's 'Working with Emotional Intelligence.'
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Summary: Emotional Intelligence
Review: This is common misinterpretation of emotions as some extra for thinking.
What our brain does is generation of current emotional state.
We are calling as thinking only partial explanations of these states.
Intelligence is ability to represent.
System, which behavior based on its own representation is cognitive.
World is given to as by representation, and only experience is link between real world and our representation about it.
This is real base to evaluate these kind of books
M. Zeldich
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Summary: Great ideas slow presentation
Review: I was slightly deceived by the books review; I hoped the book would teach me the application of emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman explains the processes the brain goes through in reacting to stimuli, he attempts to justify his concept through examples. The book has an interesting topic and ideas that I believe would benefit kids worldwide, yet the execution and methods are not clearly defined. Daniel rattles on in a disorganised fashion. A l-o-n-g read.
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Summary: This book should not be included under "Self-help" books
Review: When I did a search on amazon.com for self-help books, this book appeared on the first page of search results. This is sadly misleading. This book is not directed at people who want help in changing a personal problem, but rather it is trying to alert the community to a social problem, and suggest solutions to that. Even though it does give some good ideas about how someone might WANT to change himself, it does not even begin to tell us how an adult might make this change. In fact, one of the theses of this book, that the book takes great pains to prove, is that these things must be learned at a young age, and that society must make it a priority to teach these things to its youth, in schools and elsewhere. For an adult to pick up a book hoping for advice in how to change, and read only "Children must be taught when they are young or it's too late," is very sad. Goleman is a journalist with a social agenda, not a counselor who has helped even one troubled person.
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Summary: Great Material, Lousy Writing
Review: This book has such great potential, but the reader is forced to slog through pages upon pages of text that reads more like a graduate research paper than a self-help book. If the author could refrain from using obscure literary references and trying to impress the reader with his expansive vocabulary, the messages he is trying to convey would be much clearer. The material presented here is invaluable but the writing totally makes it undesirable.
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Summary: The worst kind of garbage!!!
Review: Goleman is exploiting the pop psychology of the day with little facts and, as an earlier reviewer noted, many of the studies he cites, not only, do not support his arguement, but contradict it. If you want to learn more about intelligence read the Bell Curve, it presents a sound arguement, which most psychometricians agree is true, and backs up the argument with an enourmous amount of facts. If you want to learn about emotions, I suggest something by Paul Eckman, a psychologist who has spent his career researching and performing experiments on the nature of emotion. All in all, this book, Emotional Intelligence, is the worst kind of garbage to be written, since it is passed off as science, and is just two peoples' (Gardner, not a psychologist!, and Golman) opinions on what they think, with VERY LITTLE or no support and it, even, presents contradictory arguements. For example, Goleman cites the emotional edge Asians have because of parental pressure, and cultural, put on children to work harder in school if they are not performing well, but then goes on to point out that many white validictorians aren't particularly successful after high school, compared to others, because they were merely pressured to work hard to get good grades, that they didn't actually have the emotional or intellectual edge reflected in their grades. Well, which is it- just pressure or an emotional edge? How can sound science be presented with OBVIOUS contradictory logic!? I'm not usually in favor of destroying books, but this seems like a good candidate.
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Summary: needs more research
Review: the concept of emotional intellingence as a psychological concept is bogus. It is merely opinions on why people in general do the things they do. When Goleman comes up with more factual research I will be a happy consumer.
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