Emotional Intelligence is a Trainable Superpower | Dr. Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman (0:00)

So IQ, cognitive abilities are basically hardwired. They don't really change that much through life. I mean, G, which sometimes is used to stand for general intelligence, has a high correlation actually with genetics.

So that, you know, what we're given is what we got. On the other hand, emotional intelligence is learned and learnable, and you can upgrade it at any point in life.

Michael Gervais (0:37)

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Okay, this week's conversation is with trailblazing psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Dr. Daniel Goleman. Daniel has literally transformed the way the world educates children, the way that we relate to our friends and our family and our coworkers, literally transformed how business works from the inside out.