InfoCompanions » Psychological Experiments http://www.infocompanions.com Brain spasms of an enthusiast who loves to live at the intersection of business, innovation, process and technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Daniel Goleman on Compassion http://www.infocompanions.com/daniel-goleman-on-compassion/ http://www.infocompanions.com/daniel-goleman-on-compassion/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:00:00 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.net/?p=73 , author of , asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time. Sharing the results of psychological experiments (and the story of the Santa Cruz Strangler), he explains how we are all born with the capacity for — but we sometimes choose to ignore it.

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About Daniel Goleman:
Daniel Goleman brought the notion of “EI” to prominence as an alternative to more traditional measures of IQ with his 1995 mega-best-seller Emotional .

Since the publication of that book, conferences and academic institutes have sprung up dedicated to the idea. EI is taught in public schools, and have adopted it as a new way of thinking about success and leadership. EI, and one’s “,” can be an explanation of why some “average” people are incredibly successful, while “geniuses” sometimes fail to live up to their promise.

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