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Daniel Goleman
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Goleman at the 2011 WEF
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| Born | March 7, 1946 Stockton, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Psychologist, Writer |
| Education | Amherst College (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Spouse | Tara Bennett-Goleman |
Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist. He is famous for his work on "emotional intelligence." For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, sharing news about the brain and how people behave.
His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence, was a huge success. It stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for a year and a half! This book has been translated into 40 languages and is read all over the world. Besides emotional intelligence, Goleman has written about many other interesting topics. These include self-deception, creativity, meditation, and how we can learn about our emotions and get along with others.
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About Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman grew up in Stockton, California. His mother was a sociology professor, and his father taught humanities. He went to Amherst College and then earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Harvard University. This means he studied how to help people with their thoughts and feelings.
While studying, Goleman traveled to India. There, he spent time with a spiritual teacher named Neem Karoli Baba. This experience inspired his first book, which was about different ways of meditating.
After returning to Harvard, Goleman taught a popular course on the psychology of consciousness. Later, he started working for Psychology Today magazine. In 1984, The New York Times hired him to write about the brain and behavior.
In 1993, Goleman helped start an organization called the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). This group works to teach social and emotional skills to students from preschool all the way through high school. Social and emotional learning (SEL) helps kids understand and manage their feelings. It also teaches them how to set goals, feel for others, build good friendships, and make smart choices.
Goleman also helped create the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (CREIO) in 1996. This group helps people understand and use emotional intelligence in workplaces. Today, he helps lead this group at Rutgers University. He is also on the board of the Mind and Life Institute, which brings together science and meditation.
Daniel Goleman's Work
Goleman worked as a science journalist at The New York Times until 1996. He wrote about psychology, emotions, and the brain. His work there was so good that he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize twice!
While at the Times, he wrote his famous book, Emotional Intelligence. This book made him widely known. It explains that emotional intelligence includes skills like knowing your own feelings (self-awareness) and managing them. It also means understanding what others are feeling (empathy) and having good social skills. Basically, it's about how well we handle our own emotions and understand the emotions of others.
TIME magazine even called his book one of the top 25 most important books in business management.
In his first book, The Varieties of Meditative Experience (1977), Goleman looked at many different ways to meditate. He explained that a key part of meditation is learning to control your attention.
Goleman also wrote Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998). In this book, he argued that skills like emotional intelligence can be just as important as IQ for doing well at work. He made a similar point for leaders in his book Primal Leadership (2001).
His book Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (2013) talks about the secret to success. It explains how being mindful helps us focus on what's truly important. Goleman says that people who achieve a lot have mastered a "triple-focus." This includes:
- Inner focus: Knowing yourself and your feelings.
- Other focus: Understanding and feeling for others.
- Outer focus: Being aware of what's happening around you.
Goleman believes that this "triple-focus" is especially important for leaders. Leaders need to guide the focus of everyone in their team and understand what's happening outside their organization.
Awards and Recognition
Daniel Goleman has received many awards for his work, including:
- Career Achievement award for Excellence in the Media (1984) from the American Psychological Association.
- He was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This was for his work in sharing behavioral science with the public.
- Washburn Award for Science Journalism in 1997.
- He was ranked 39th on the 2011 Thinkers50 list of top business thinkers.
- Centennial Medal from the Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2023.
Books by Daniel Goleman
Here are some of the books Daniel Goleman has written:
- 1977: The Varieties of the Meditative Experience (later called The Meditative Mind)
- 1985: Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception
- 1995: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
- 1997: Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health
- 1998: Working with Emotional Intelligence
- 2002: Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee)
- 2003: Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama
- 2006: Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
- 2009: Ecological Intelligence: The Hidden Impacts of What We Buy
- 2013: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
- 2015: A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World
- 2017: Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body (with Richard Davidson)
- 2019: The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
- 2022: Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion (with Tsoknyi Rinpoche)
See also
In Spanish: Daniel Goleman para niños
- Emotional aperture
