Daniel Goleman
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Daniel Goleman (born 1946, Stockton, California) is the author of the international best-seller Emotional Intelligence, and the book Social Intelligence. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he has also given classes.
Goleman has written for the New York Times, editing its science page and specializing in psychology and brain sciences.
Following publication of "Emotional Intelligence", Goleman founded the Emotional Intelligence Consortium and published several other books in that area.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. ~ Daniel Goleman in Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception
This quote is widely misattributed to R.D. Laing but appears in Goleman’s (1985) book Vital Lies, Simple Truths with the following introduction: “To put it in the form of one of R.D. Laing’s ‘knots’:” (p. 24): “Knots” being a reference to an earlier text by Laing (1972). So it is in the form of Laing but not by Laing. It came from his clinical psychotherapeutic experiences, but it speaks to the field of conflict psychology and facilitation as well.
