Working with Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman

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

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.