Social Intelligence – at Last

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.

Beautiful DVD: Cider House Rules

Mr. Rose is a shadowy character, and just as he is dying, he delivers a line that summarizes the Cider House Rules film: “Sometimes you gotta break some rules to put things right.”

The Beauty and Power of DVDs

I just watched Dirty Dancing, the Twentieth Anniversary DVD set, which I recently found at our local Barnes & Noble store.  I listened to Patrick Swayze explain how similar his background was to that of Johnny Castle, the character he played.  And I learned how life came to imitate art, while rehearsing and shooting the film in 1987, as the cast got into their roles, literally as well as figuratively – very much as it happened during the filming of M*A*S*H, nearly two decades earlier.

I thought, once again, how much I loved DVDs and what I was able to learn from them.

Then, I wondered if I could explain clearly what I love about DVDs and why.