More Important the IQ!
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This book explores how Emotional Intelligence is a key factor in determining personal as well as professional success. Goleman explains how individuals who are able to tap into self-awareness, self-discipline and empathy are usually happier, healthier and more successful with personal and professional relationships than individuals who are unwilling or unable to learn what motivates people.
Goleman argues that Emotional Intelligence can be learned at any age and is well worth the effort. This book is well written and has useful and powerful tools to interact with others and to understand oneself better.
The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide To: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking
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A Bit Too Contemporary
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This book gets off to a good start, but then falls into the Maslow trap of when you've got a hammer, you see every problem as a nail. By the end of the book I thought 'emotional intelligence' was a pretty weedy phenomemon and there was far too much doom and gloom in the book.
One of my favourite books of all time is The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. Most of the stuff in Burton (written over 400 years ago) is covered by Goleman. Only Goleman dresses it up as the latest scientific research.
Things like reliving trauma as a way of purging it were intriguing. By the end I was skipping pages so I could take it to the charity shop.
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interesting - but mostly about children
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Very interesting for someone new to the concept of emotional intelligence, especially parents or teachers. Almost all examples and studies are drawn from children (kindergarten or primary school age, mostly), and how their EQ can be observed and stimulated. However, the book of limited use to adults who want to understand the strengths and limitations of their own emotional intelligence, or how to improve it.
I gather when this book first came out it was a groundbreaking work. Much research and writing has been done since then, so there are probably better choices for someone who wants to learn about emotional intelligence in adults.
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Poor mans Dianetics
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I was first introduced to this book at a work seminar. After several hours of team work activities, communication coaching and munching on the finger food- the seminar leader (hired by my employer) gave all the staff an insight into how the mind works by doing diagrams and giving examples using data she had garnered from the book 'Emotional Intelligence'. I was struck by how many of the concepts and ideas seem to by synonymous with L.Ron Hubbards 'Dianetics- The Modern Science of Mental Health', but presented in a more loose fashion and with a less long term technique for solving the problems to the primitive area of mans behaviour.
Whilst I do agree that some of the authors statements are true- I would recommend reading the real thing first.
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Life Intelligence
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This book is not just about getting on better in the work place, but getting on better in life in general. I came to read this book through a desire to try and better myself and from reading `self help' books from authors like Susan Jeffers and Paul McKenna. Having only just finished reading it, it is to early to say whether what I have learned will be of long term benefit in terms of my career and other problems like occasional social anxiety and comfort eating. The book challenges you to confront unhelpful and self-defeating thoughts when they arise and to locate where and when they first came from. It is fair to say that this book has given me a huge insight into why I think the way I do and the possible reasons why I am the way I am. Although it does not go into practical solutions to deeply, it does give you insights into your own emotional thinking and that alone I believe can be of enormous benefit. I now feel I have a fresh desire and impetus to push through these ways of thinking. If you have problems in your life like me then this book could help to give you the same insights.
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