Super Soul Special: Daniel Goleman: Emotional Intelligence 101

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Original Air Date: December 31, 2018 Do you have a good sense of how others see the world? Psychologist, journalist and best-selling author Daniel Goleman discusses his ground-breaking research on emotional intelligence. Daniel explains how we can enhance and manage our emotions to expand our brain capacity. As a pioneer in the emotional and social intelligence movement, Daniel's research changed the way we look at what it means to be smart. He explains how people can sharpen their emotional intelligence to improve their relationships, work and the empathy they have for others. Daniel wrote for “The New York Times” for 12 years, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He has also authored more than 10 books on psychology, education and leadership, including the 1995 bestseller "Emotional Intelligence," which has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey.
0:02.0	Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast.
0:06.0	I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time,
0:12.0	taking time to be more fully present.
0:15.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us
0:21.0	starts right now.
0:24.0	Emotional intelligence, compassion, being in the flow.
0:31.0	We explore these groundbreaking concepts with pioneering journalist, best-selling author, and psychologist Dr. Daniel Goldman.
0:39.0	I've known Daniel Goldman for over 20 years.
0:42.0	He opened our eyes to a new way of thinking about the difference between IQ and EQ,
0:47.9	our emotional intelligence.
0:50.0	Daniel Goldman unraveled the mystery of the relationship between our brain, our emotions, and what he calls the scientific case for spirituality.
1:00.0	His exhaustive research on how our brains regulate emotions culminated in his groundbreaking
1:06.8	book Emotional Intelligence.
1:10.0	It became a phenomenon spending over a year and a half on the New York Times bestseller list,
1:14.8	shifting the way we define what it means to be really smart.
1:20.7	So this book, Emotional Intelligence, it was landmark. It was a landmark. It was
1:27.9	revolutionary and I later have since read that the Harvard Business Review actually called it a paradigm
1:35.4	shattering idea, one of the most influential books of the last two decades,
1:41.4	emotional intelligence.
1:44.1	And I had a big aha moment reading this book
1:47.0	because it was the first time I suddenly got
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