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Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman is an author, psychologist and a science journalist. He has written the books ‘ Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence’, ‘Ecological Intelligence’, ‘Social Intelligence’ as well as several other books.

With a background of a scholarship to Harvard to study clinical psychology, he became interested in the human mind in all fields of psychology. Greatly influenced by his mentor David McClelland, you can see aspects of this in Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence book and other works, he then spent a lot of time in India studying ancient meditative techniques. By looking at emotional intelligence in this way he has been able to apply this knowledge to other situations especially how relationships, be it at work or home, are affected by your emotional intelligence.

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Emotional Literacy The First Step To Emotional Intelligence

Emotional literacy is the ability to put emotions in to words. It is fair to say once you have put what you are feeling in to words you have identified this feeling now you can make an action upon it.

The context that emotional literacy is often referred to is that of children at school but it is by no means an issue of the classroom, it will affect everyone especially in the workplace, at home and throughout life. If you can empathize with a person identify what they Read the rest of this entry »

What Is Emotional Intelligence

What is emotional intelligence?  It’s your ability to identify and reason with emotions, how you can control emotions to enhance thought. It is now becoming much better known and written about since a lot of tests have shown that your emotional intelligence can dramatically affect how much success you will encounter.

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