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"Emotional Intelligence is a master aptitude, a capacity that profoundly affects all other abilities, either facilitating or interfering with them."--Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, p. 80.

In today's world with so much emphasis being placed on the merit of IQ alone a person's intelligence and their ability to succeed is measured heavily by their IQ. Unfortunately this is the most well known predictor for intelligence. However, it is not the only one. It is just the most widely known. At least as important, perhaps even more importantly, is a persons emotional intelligence. A better predictor in assessing a person's ability to succeed in their life is their emotional intelligence.
David Goleman was one of the people who brought emotional intelligence to mainstream of public knowledge. David Goleman was working as a science journalist at the New York Times when he came across an article by psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey in a small academic journal that piqued......

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