Some time after I read Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence, in 2006, I wrote that this was probably the last hugely eye-opening, self-revealing reading I was likely to discover.
And I’d run across any number of eye-opening books – perhaps starting with Pierce Howard’s thousand page The Owner’s Manual for The Brain. This book – reading parts of it several times and taking about twenty pages of notes – pointed me to Thomas Armstrong’s 7 Kinds of Smart – which drew on Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence work. My Brain book also pointed me to Dan Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence. (more…)
