Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

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Summary: Interesting look at social problems
Review: This is not the book I thought it would be. It looks at several interesting subjects such as why children with high Emotional Intelligence are more likely to earn more. It also covers the development of depression and how rage affects our ability to make decisions.

Emotional Intelligence is really the ability to understand, control and react accoringly to our emotions. This topic could have been covered more in depth, but otherwise this is a great book for business people and psychologists alike.

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Summary: The Groundbreaking Book On Social Intelligence
Review: Our success in life can depend more on our emotional development than on our IQ. Sometimes persons of high IQ flounder while those with modest IQ do surprising well. You will learn what it means to be smart in the ways of social development. Unlike IQ emotional intelligence is not fixed at birth.

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Summary: All you need to do is look around
Review: You don't need to be a psychologist, look at studies, real "science", vodoo, journals or any meta-anaylisis to know if the contents of this book is for real or not. This is not complicated: All you need to do after reading this book is sit for awhile, take a look at yourself and the people around you (family, co-workers, neighbors, etc.) Think of how you relate to them and they to you.... and get to your own conclusions. You will be surprised at what you find.

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Summary: Social intelligence
Review: This great book will help you to get along with other people. It is a brilliant modern-day version of "How to Win Friends and Influence People." I don't understand why this book is called "Emotional Intelligence" because it should be called "Social Intelligence." Dr. Goleman does explain the neurological basis of emotions but doesn't offer information about how to deal with specific emotions. If you want to understand the messages signaled by each emotion, how to best deal with them, and be emotionally self-reliant, I definitely recommend "Optimal Thinking: How To Be Your Best Self."

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Summary: A book that gives a new concept to the language
Review: The concept of ' Emotional Intelligence ' is at the center of this work. Goleman says that mere I.Q. is not enough to understand the likelihood of someone 's success in the world. He indicates a more important factor what he calls ' emotional intelligence'. By this he means self- awareness, persistence, empathy and the ability to understand and sympathize with the feeling of another. I do not know the social -science research in this area very well. But his concept did seem to confirm something that I had seen in a number of situations i.e. that it is peoples' ability to get along with other people which is a key element in many forms of life and work success. Perhaps I simply but this book makes a good case for this, providing also a large number of examples as confirmation.

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Summary: Should be required reading in every school
Review: This book is incredible. The coverage on the aspects of emotional intelligence is quite rich and easily read. I have introduced all of my kids and favored friends to the book and the concepts it contains.

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Summary: Ridiculous! That's the best way to describe this book.
Review: I'm a psychologist that has specialized in emotions. All I can say is that this book makes a mockery of science. Goleman has fooled millions to gain millions. Don't let him fool you too.

IQ is the most important individual trait predictor of success and there are thousands of studies to prove it. It's not everything, however, which is why personality--as traditionally studied (e.g., the big five framework)--should also be used to predict life success.

Goleman comes along with "new discoveries" shouting EUREKA...and people follow merely because others have followed and because the message sounds intuitively appealing. The message is false, specious, illusionary. Don't believe it.

If you really want to know more about the (...) head-quack Dan Goleman read a book that based on real science. It's called "Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth" by Matthews, Zeidner, and Roberts.

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Summary: Pseudoscience and quackary at its best
Review: This advice is primarily written to those who do not know about how to conduct and read science: DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK.

Emotional intelligence is voodoo science at its best. It sounds intuitively appealing but there nothing behind it. Plenty of research has now been undertaken and guess what? According to a recent meta-analysis (an integration of many studies) EQ correlates very weakly with work performance (in fact about 3 times less that does IQ--go ahead, take a look at the Journal of Vocational Behavior, a credible and well-respected scientific journal to check the accuracy of my statement).

But Goleman preaches the opposite; speculating where he shouldn't be. What he's done and currently doing is shocking and unethical. It seems that he's only in it for the money; or maybe, he's just not as smart (IQ!) as he makes out to be.