Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining emotional intelligence and why it may be the most important.”—USA Today

Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman’s brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.

Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which come with self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Even though shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence will also be nurtured and strengthened all over our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work.

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Emotional Intelligence could not come at a better time—we spend so much of our time online, increasingly more jobs are becoming automated and digitized, and our children are picking up new technology faster than we ever imagined. With a new introduction from the creator, the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition prepares readers, now more than ever, to succeed in their fullest potential and stand out from the pack with the assistance of EI.