YOU HAVE BOTH A LOGICAL MIND AND EMOTIONAL MIND

This was the big idea Daniel Goleman captured in his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence.

It wasn't his idea. Goleman was a journalist who made a career out of reading scientific journals and publishing news stories for the masses. When he wrote his book, he combed through thousands of studies that were leveraging breakthroughs in neuroscience thanks to the fMRI's ability to see inside the brain.

The world sat up and took note. It changed the trajectory of education and corporate training. The conversation expanded from knowledge-based intelligence to emotional and social intelligence. In other words, from book smarts to street smarts.

It changed the game.

We've pulled the core idea out of his book and made it accessible in one place. This summarizes his 300 pages into a short read.

If you are interested in how your logical and emotional minds work together, then you can join the millions of people who have benefited from Goleman's work.

It is a historical marker of how our awareness has changed during our lifetime. And it is even more relevant today than it was in 1995.

Our economy valued "expertise" in 1995. Most workers were hired for what they knew. Knowledge was power back then.

Today, the economy is shifting. Simply possessing knowledge isn't enough. It's becoming critically important to collaborate with others. And until we develop greater emotional and social skills, collaboration is difficult, inefficient, and stressful.