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Working with Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Bimal Mehta@bimalmehta
Oct 20, 2004 01:58 PM, 2744 Views
(Updated Oct 20, 2004)
Are You Emotionally Intelligent

Anyone can become angry- that is easy. But to be angry with the


right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right


purpose, and in the right way-that is not easy -ARISTOTLE


This quote has been picked up from The Nicomachean


Ethics, Aristotle’s enquiry into virtue, character and good


life. The main theme of the book is to manage our emotional life with


intelligence. Our passions when well excercised, have wisdom; they


guide our thinking, our values, our survival. But they can easily go


awry and do so often. As Arsistotle saw, the problem is not with


emotionality, but with appropriateness of emotion and its expression.


The question is, how can we bring intelligence to our emotions and


civility to our streets and caring to our communal life?


Well the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman is the


answer to the above question.


What is Emotional Intelligence?What is EQ? How is it different from


IQ? Is it more important than IQ? These are some of the intriguing


questions that the book answers. The book serves as a guide in a


journey through the scientific insights into the emotions, a voyage


aimed at bringing greater understanding to some of the most perplexing


moments in our own lives & world around us. The journey’s end is to


understand what it means and how to bring intelligence to emotion.


The book is divided into 5 parts


Part 1 deals with the brain’s emotional architecture, an understanding


of brain structures that rule our moments of rage and fear or passion


and joy.It provides an idea about shaping our emotional habits.


Part 2 deals with emotional impulse, to read another’s innermost


feelings’, to handle relationships smoothly and also provides a model


of what it means to be emotionally intelligent.


Part 3 deals with the various aspects of our life where we need to


apply emotional Intelligence. Some of the prime aspects are our


worklife, prized relationships & also our physical health.


Part 4 deals with the emotional lessons that we learn as children at


home and at schools. It tells us how are childhood serves as the


benchmark for setting down the emotional habits that will govern our


lives.


Part 5 explores what hazards await those who, in growing to maturity


fail to master the emotional realm, how deficiencies in emotional


intelligence heighten a spectrum of risks, form depression or a life


of violence from sleeping disorder to drug abuse.


The most striking part of the book is the survey of thousands of


parents and teachers that shows a worldwide trend for the present


generation of children to be more troubled emotionally than the last,


more lonely and depressed, more angry and unruly, more nervous and


prone to worry.This is the basic reason the book becomes so important.


At a young age it teaches you how to handle emotions effectively and


get the best out of your life. It gives insights into how EQ is more


important than IQ, which if not utilized to its potential can destroy


a beautiful life. Anyone wanting to make it big in life, this book is


a must so that in your life whenever you face an enigmatic situation


you can face it audaciously.


Get your hands on it as soon as possible & read it to understand it.

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