Emotional Intelligence

Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

By: Daniel Goleman Ph.D. Ph.D.

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

This program features a new introduction read by Daniel Goleman and a bonus dialogue between the author and Jon Kabat-Zinn.

It is the tenth anniversary since the first publication of Daniel Goleman's groundbreaking bestseller, Emotional Intelligence which maps the territory where IQ meets EQ, where we apply what we know to how we live. Spending over a year on the New York Times bestseller list, Emotional Intelligence provided the evidence for what many successful people already knew: being smart isn't just a matter of mastering facts; it's a matter of mastering your own emotions and understanding the emotions of the people around you.

©1995 Daniel Goleman; (P)2001 Books on Tape Inc., Published by Audio Renaissance, a Division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC

Critic reviews

“Impressive in its scope and depth, staggering in its implications, Emotional Intelligence gives us an entirely new way of looking at the root causes of many of the ills of our families and our society.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., author of Wherever You Go, There You Are

It’s so dry

I don’t know if it’s the narrative or just the book overall but this material is so incredibly dry that it’s hard to listen to for more than an hr a day

File is broken

The book is great, but the audio format and file is corrupted and therefore broken, there are way too many parts in which the audio skips or reloads and it’s unbearable, you can’t really hear or make the audio part.

Horrible Narrator

This guy sounds like a robot and not in a good way. When the narration started, I honestly thought, “How cool, Stephen Hawking is giving the prologue.” When I realized that this voice was an actual person, I downloaded another version of the book. I knew that listening to robotic sounding nonfiction would cause the book to be boring in such a way I could not properly attend to it. I am sure that there are highly educated people find of this kind of Narrating to seem classy or fancy. To me it was just hard to understand and boring.

A text book on how to be human

This book has been around for long enough. I probably won't say anything new about it.

It draws the map of what makes us who we are, and suggests how to be our best. It should be taught in elementary school (Okay, slightly simplified) and be required reading by HS. It can be poignant, painful even when you stumble on those "aha" moments, discovering why you do what you do (and are not so proud of). But it is neither moralistic nor does it indulge your flaws. It just describes the complex bundle that we humans are, with both scientific accuracy and compassion. If all the people in a position of power read it, the world would be a much better place. To read this book is to learn how to read yourself.

I gave only four stars for the performance because although Barrett Whitener does a decent job of reading, he is a little cold and it took me a while to get used to his nasal voice. I would have preferred this book to be read by Daniel Goleman himself, who is heard in the Preface and the Epilogue.

Interesting topic, boring listen

I really enjoyed the topic. This book is packed full of really incredible information that I will try to utilize in my life. Unfortunately, the author goes so far in depth and uses repetitive examples that it was a struggle to finish.