everyone knows that high iq is no guarantee of success happiness or virtue but until emotional intelligence we could only guess why daniel golemans brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our two mindsthe rational and the emotionaland how they together shape our destinythrough vivid examples goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence and shows how they determine our success in relationships work and even our physical wellbeing what emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart the best news is that emotional literacy is not fixed early in life every parent every teacher every business leader and everyone interested in a more civil society has a stake in this compelling vision of human possibilityfrom the trade paperback edition