The Key to Emotional Intelligence
Seymour Epstein

A high IQ may help you do well in school, but your experiential intelligence - what most of us think of as common sense - is far more important when it comes to success in life.

We all know people with unexceptional IQs who are, much more successful at work, at home and in their relationships than many people who have higher IQs.

Such people, says eminent personality psychologist Seymour Epstein, have a "talent for living". They know how to make constructive use of their experiential mind: a mind that bypasses rational processes and operates on automatic pilot on the basis of past experience.

Experts have long recognized the importance of practical intelligence. But until recently no one has known how to measure it. In this book, Epstein, world renowned for his research and theory on personality, offers his new theory of intelligence - Cognitive Experiential Self Theory (CEST).

Here you will learn:

• How to diagnose the automatic thinking processes that cause "smart people to think dumb".
  
  
• How to identify your basic needs, beliefs, sensitivities, and compulsions, and how to use this knowledge to increase your understanding of yourself and others.
  
  
• How constructive thinking is related to success in work, social relations, intimate relationships, and mental and physical well-being.
  
  
• How to nourish better constructive thinking in your children.

You'll learn how to avoid such common pitfalls as "catastrophizing", categorical thinking, personalization, and the tyranny of the "should". You'll find techniques to help you tune into your preconscious and communicate with your experiential mind through fantasy and imagery, the language it knows best.

Exercises are provided to give you practice in replacing destructive responses with constructive ones. Soon your constructive thinking will become automatic.

By teaching you how to think smart, this pioneering work offers important insights into the personality attributes that really matter in life - and tells you how you can develop them to the fullest.

Author, Dr. Seymour Epstein, professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, is a prominent international authority on the psychology of personality who has published more than 100 articles in leading professional journals.

Dr Seymour Epstein deserves to be known as one of the fathers of emotional intelligence. This is one of the best self-help books ever published.

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