Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Summary

The book I chose to read and critique was Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman. The book Emotional Intelligence is about the study and understanding of how our emotional triggers and reactions are a part of our intelligence. The author, Daniel Goleman, presents several different concepts that are fairly important to understanding emotional intelligence. One of the major concepts he explains is that in a way, we have two different minds living within our consciousness. One of these minds operates based on rational thought and the other operates on emotional thought, and these two conflicting thought-process are just a piece of the puzzle. Over the course of the book, Goleman brings 3 central points to the forefront of the discussion. After reading this book, I feel that this book has a great deal of knowledge to offer and is well worth the time. The first of the three major points made in this novel is that Emotional Intelligence is highly dependent on a person ability to self assess and regulate. This means that for a person to be considered to have a high EQ, this person would have to …show more content…
Goleman does a solid job presenting the importance of the specific topic of emotional Intelligence, showing his true wealth of knowledge during his in depth analysis. He makes the point that our general lack of empathy for some people shows that we have a long way to come in regards to our ability to understand emotional literacy. This book covers a great deal of content in this subject field, and no only helps you better understand things such as how our emotional condition is directly correlated with the amount of pain a person can deal with, but gives you insight into many other emotional topics. Overall, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman presents very memorable and useful information based on how our