Emotional Intelligence
...either facilitating or interfering with them."--Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, p. 80.
In today's world with so much emphasis being placed on the merit of IQ alone a person's intelligence and their ability to succeed is measured heavily by their IQ. Unfortunately this is the most well known predictor for intelligence. However, it is not the only one. It is just the most widely known. At least as important, perhaps even more importantly, is a persons emotional intelligence. A better predictor in assessing a person's ability to succeed in their life is their emotional intelligence.
David Goleman was one of the people who brought emotional intelligence to mainstream of public knowledge. David Goleman was working as a science journalist at the New York Times when he came across an article by psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey in a small academic journal that piqued his curiosity. The article introduced the concept of "emotional intelligence" and challenged the commonly held belief that the Intelligent Quotient (IQ) was the strongest predictor of the future success of an individual. Theories behind emotional intelligence added additional ingredients to the recipe psychologists (and laypeople) might consider when measuring the potential for success in a person's life. ). In writing his book, Goleman was motivated to spread the concept of emotional intelligence and revolutionize the way people were to think of it. Further, Goleman sought to give more weight to the importance that they would continue to attribute to it in comparison to standard IQ measures.
As found on the website Funderstanding.com, "a 1994 report on the current state of emotional literacy in the U.S., author Daniel Goleman stated: ...in navigating our lives, it is our fears and envies, our rages and depressions, our worries and anxieties that steer us day to day. Even...
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