Fan Favorite: Daniel Goleman on Expanding Your Mind With Emotional Intelligence
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🗓️ 15 February 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Conversations with Tom, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Goleman, Ph. D, joins Tom Bilyeu to discuss such matters and more as they explore why it’s critical you become self-aware of your emotional intelligence and begin to develop it, all while pursuing your purpose and meaning in life. They discuss what emotional intelligence and emotional IQ is, how you can develop and strengthen it at any age, the power of practicing meditation regularly, how purpose and meaning is critical to leading a successful life, the common traits of successful leaders, why you need to have empathy, optimism, love and kindness, and so much more.
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 2-7-21
SHOW NOTES:
Emotional Intelligence | Daniel breaks down what being emotionally intelligent looks like. [0:27]
Training | Daniel reveals what training emotional intelligence looks like. [3:36]
Adulthood | Daniel reveals what you may need to unlearn as an adult. [11:09]
Breathing | Daniel reveals the powerful and positive impact of breathing exercises. [21:35]
Importance | Daniel reveals why it matters that the western world adopts mediation. [29:13]
Social Brain | Daniel breaks down what your social brain is. [35:21]
Meaning | Daniel reveals why meaning, purpose, and beliefs are so important to us. [44:09]
Ruthless | Daniel reveals why so many kids can have moments of ruthlessness. [1:19:55]
Empathy | Daniel shares how empathy is teachable. [1:21:42]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Conversations with Tom. |
| 0:06.3 | I am joined today by Daniel Goldman, who wrote an extraordinary book that I am very excited |
| 0:11.6 | to, he's written a whole host of books, in fact, that I'm excited to talk about. |
| 0:15.1 | But emotional intelligence being one of the ones that we'll probably spend a lot of time on |
| 0:19.0 | today and why it may be more |
| 0:21.8 | important than IQ. Daniel, welcome to the show. Thank you, Tom. Pleasure to be here. |
| 0:27.5 | Dude, this topic is something that I think a lot about. As somebody who grew up not thinking of |
| 0:33.1 | themselves as being particularly IQ smart, this was one of those first things that gave me some hope |
| 0:39.1 | that there might be something that I'm, that I could find my own sort of path to success. |
| 0:46.5 | And talk us through sort of just like a real brief introduction to what emotional intelligence |
| 0:52.5 | is. And I think focusing on the four parts would be a good place to start. what emotional intelligence is and I think focusing on the four parts |
| 0:55.0 | would be a good place to start. |
| 0:57.0 | So emotional intelligence is just a different way of being smart, as you pointed out. |
| 1:01.0 | It's being intelligent about emotions. |
| 1:03.0 | So there are four parts, self-awareness, knowing what you're feeling, why you feel it, how it affects what you do, |
| 1:10.0 | managing yourself, using that awareness to keep your |
| 1:14.8 | disruptive emotions in check and marshal your good feelings, your positive feelings, your energy, |
| 1:21.2 | and then tuning into other people, empathy, knowing how they feel, and then putting that |
| 1:26.2 | all together to have effective relationships. So those are the four parts, self-awareness, self how they feel, and then putting that all together to have effective relationships. |
| 1:29.1 | So those are the four parts, self-awareness, self-management, empathy, and social skill. |
| 1:35.0 | And frankly, there are a lot of very high IQ people who are not very good in this domain. |
| 1:43.1 | And also, I've got lots of different kinds of data that show that as you go on in life |
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