I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

now.

Regional Intelligence, Compassion, Being in the Flow. We explore these groundbreaking concepts

with pioneering journalist, best-selling author and psychologist Dr. Daniel Goldman.

I've known Daniel Goldman for over 20 years. He opened our eyes to a new way of thinking

about the difference between IQ and EQ, our emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goldman unraveled the mystery of the relationship between our brain, our emotions,

and what he calls the scientific case for spirituality. His exhaustive research on how our brains

regulate emotions culminated in his groundbreaking book, Emotional Intelligence. It became a phenomenon

spending over a year and a half on the New York Times bestseller list, shifting the way we

define what it means to be really smart.

So this book, Emotional Intelligence, it was landmark. It was a landmark. It was revolutionary.

And I later have since read that the Harvard Business Review actually called it a paradigm

shattering idea. One of the most influential books of the last two decades, Emotional Intelligence.

And I had a big aha moment reading this book because it was the first time I suddenly

got one of the reasons why I'd been able to be so successful in life because there were

so many people always who were smarter than I, who had higher IQs than I, who were more

intellectual than I. And then suddenly I thought, but I got them on the EQ.

You sure do. I got them on the EQ. That was the big aha for me.

Because I grew up, both my parents were like college teachers and I grew up with this kind

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