Daniel Goleman || Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today it’s great to chat with Daniel Goleman on the podcast. Daniel is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and college campuses. As a science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain behavioral sciences for the New York Times for many years. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence was on the New York Times bestseller list for a year and a half with more than five million copies in print worldwide in 40 languages and has been a bestseller in many countries. Apart from his books on emotional intelligence, Goleman has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social-emotional learning, ecoliteracy, and the ecological crisis.
Topics:
· Daniel’s current research
· Does IQ outweigh emotional intelligence?
· Competency modeling for emotional intelligence
· Correlation between general intelligence and social-emotional intelligence
· Cognitive control and social-emotional learning
· Daniel’s interest in meditation
· Are certain personalities more attracted to mindfulness?
· How mindfulness training can affect neuroplasticity and creativity
· The Tibetan model of mindfulness
· Meditation apps and their effectivity
· Is there a link between meditation and emotional intelligence?
· The future of mindfulness training methods
· First Person Plural Podcast: EI & Beyond
· Radical transparency during the ecological crisis
· Daniel’s definition of intelligence
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| 0:00.0 | Today, it's great to chat with Daniel Goldman on the podcast. Daniel was an internationally |
| 0:19.2 | known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences |
| 0:22.9 | and college campuses. As a science journalist, Goldman reported on the brain and behavioral |
| 0:27.5 | sciences for the New York Times for many years. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence |
| 0:31.9 | was on the New York Times bestseller list for a year and a half with more than five million |
| 0:35.8 | copies in print worldwide in 40 languages and has been a bestseller in many countries. Apart |
| 0:40.6 | from his books Emotional Intelligence, Goldman has written books on topics including self-deception, |
| 0:44.6 | creativity, transparency, meditation, social emotional learning, eco literacy and the ecological |
| 0:50.8 | crisis. Daniel, what it honored is to chat with you today. Well, it's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you so much. So this is a bit surreal for me and I'll tell you why. And when I was in ninth |
| 1:02.2 | grade in high school, your book Emotional Intelligence came out. And when I just even read the first |
| 1:09.5 | chapter, I thought to myself, this is what I'm going to do in my life someday. Wow, you know, |
| 1:17.7 | like that was the book that, you know, first of all, when I said that's what I would do with my |
| 1:21.9 | life someday, there was a bunch of things tied up with that. I thought, well, I want to be a science |
| 1:25.4 | writer. It wasn't just I want to be a psychologist. It was I want to be a public science communicator. |
| 1:30.9 | I want to do outreach. I want to I just love the style and the way that you was very captivating. |
| 1:37.0 | I remember I think in chapter one or something, you talk about the amygdala and how it can be, |
| 1:43.1 | you know, we can go go berserk. And I thought, well, and it just made such an impact on me. So |
| 1:48.6 | I just want to start saying thank you for influencing me going into this field. |
| 1:53.0 | But so kind of you. I'm glad you met me all of that. You followed that path. Yeah. |
| 1:58.7 | Well, thank you. You seem to be your psychologist and a communicator. That's great. Yeah. That's wonderful. |
| 2:04.5 | I'm doing what I when I definitely dreamed of as a kid. So yeah, the note we're going to talk about |
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