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.
Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart.
The best news is that "emotional literacy" is not fixed early in life. Every parent, every teacher, every business leader, and everyone interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this compelling vision of human possibility.
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人们考试时忧虑越多,成绩就会越糟。忧虑是一项认知任务,个体如果把心理资源用于忧虑,就分散了用于处理其他信息的心理资源。也就是说,如果我们一直担心考试失败,那么我们用于思考和答题的注意力就大大减少了。结果忧虑就变成了自我实现的预言,破事我们朝着它预测的方向越陷越深。
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