Being Smart in More Ways than One

take some control over your own emotions, you never can really act in the world, all you can do is react. In fact, there's research that suggests that emotional intelligence counts more than the traditional IQ-based intelligence when it comes to employment and life satisfaction. Certainly, there are plenty of intellectually bright people around who show very little emotional intelligence, and appear to lose out for that reason.”

The History of Emotional Intelligence

The person most well known for being a proponent of emotional intelligence is Daniel Goleman, an American psychologist with a degree from Harvard University who wrote for the New York Times science page on psychology and brain sciences. In his ground-breaking book Emotional Intelligence, he outlined emotional intelligence in terms of the concepts of self-awareness, altruism, personal motivation, empathy, and being able to love and be loved by friends, partners, and family members.