It also explores recent research suggesting that emotions have powerful effects on health. This is just one example of how emotional intelligence manifests in life. The brain is extraordinarily flexible. Your initial strengths and weaknesses may be determined by your brain circuitry, but each of these five skills can be improved. Through conscious effort and learning, we can increase our emotional intelligence at any age.
Readers also discover how emotional competence can be learned.
Goleman analyzes five key sets of skills and vividly shows how they determine who is hired and who is fired in the top corporations in the world. The book portrays a society suffering from a breakdown of emotional intelligence. Suicides have tripled among young people in the same period, and forcible rape has doubled. Dr. Goleman doesn't believe so. He finds that each gender has its emotional strengths and weaknesses.