Daniel Goldman wrote the book titled "Working With Emotional Intelligence" in 1998

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Daniel Goleman wrote the book titled "Working With Emotional Intelligence" in 1998. The sequel to "Emotional Intelligence” in 1995 in which he points out three years earlier self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, confidence and self-motivation, empathy and social skill are very important if we want to stay on top of our performance and the way we carry ourselves on a daily basis. It is about a mastering your own emotions and understanding your full potential of the real you. In addition to, empowering your creative potentials within yourself and the emotions of the people around you. He further points out because our bosses, co-workers, family are constantly judging us everyday, we, in fact, find ourselves ready to zero in on how these qualities of emotional intelligence can make or break a persons career. He continues to say, in “Working With Emotional Intelligence” given that emotional competencies make up two thirds or more of the ingredients of such a standard performance, the data suggest that finding people who have these abilities, or nurturing them can add tremendous value to an organizations bottom line (Goleman, 1998, p. 35).

According to Goleman, most corporations today look for communication, interpersonal, and initiative skills in a person and all those things that have to do with emotional intellect. That awareness—of how our emotions affect what we are doing—is the fundamental emotional competence, which is the recognition of how emotions influence our behavior and leads to our choices. Lacking this ability, we become vulnerable to being attacked by emotions run amok. Such awareness is our guide in fine-tuning on-the job performance of every kind, managing our unruly feelings and keeps us motivated (Goleman, 1998, p. 55). By tuning in to these emotions we become more focus on our ability to perform well.

There are actual workshops that are designed to help people like you and I strengthen the weakness that people have within themselves and focus on raising their emotional intelligence. Most people that take the workshop show an 86% improvement and learn to intergrate the A, B, C, and D’s of keeping grounded, centered and focused as one deals with unrelenting workplace change, chaos, and virtually anything else. There are even follow-up courses up to three years later that show its improvement is still high.

Through my eyes emotional Intellect does mean a whole lot more than book smarts. Goleman helps you become fully aware of the real potential within yourself. I believe his book allows anybody to experience emotional intelligence through what they have learned in their own life experiences and helps one to recognize how these emotions shape what they perceive, think and do.

His book is not only for those in the work force but for everyone who want to articulate those feelings and perhaps it should be taught to new parents and young children before they reach puberty and follow up until they graduate from high school. So, everyone can maintain integrity and taking responsibility for their own actions. Therefore, “Working with Emotional Intelligence” is being the strongest indicator of human success.

In conclusion, life is too short to spend eight hours each day doing something you dislike. Do not let this toxic attitude that society have created to prevent the mind from doing what truly inspires you. Let the things you love pay off, in other words, if you love being a surgeon and are contentedly absorbed in a complex operation or a psychologist working with abnormal mental health, then work in itself is a delight and becomes a powerful motivator. Last but not least, people who have reached this pinnacle, continue to thrive, engage and master new challenges and find ways to innovate their interests and activities that make them the most happiness. Although, I find this book quite interesting, how Goleman looks at emotional intelligence and how he has compiled resources of studies based on a few strands of scientific research. I find it frustrating for the reader to grasp his “quick fix” solutions.