Training the Brain: Cultivating Emotional Skills (Wired to Connect: Dialogues on Social Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson explains how the brain's social and emotional circuitry becomes shaped to give each of us a unique "brain style" in reacting to hair trigger or slow to react, feeling strongly or weakly, recovering quickly or slowly. Davidson's research on meditators suggests we can take a more active role in reshaping our brains, and our emotional response, for the better.

Genres: Audiobook, Psychology, Nonfiction

Audio CD

First published April 25, 2012

About the author

Author of Emotional Intelligence and psychologist Daniel Goleman has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends, and conducts business. The Wall Street Journal ranked him one of the 10 most influential business thinkers.

Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times best sellers list for a year-and-a-half. Named one of the 25 "Most Influential Business Management Books" by TIME, it has been translated into 40 languages. The Harvard Business Review called emotional intelligence (EI) “a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea.”

Goleman’s new book, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, argues that attention — a fundamental mental ability for success — has come under siege. Leadership that gets results demands a triple focus: on our inner world so we can manage ourselves; on others, for our relationships; and on the outer forces that shape our organizations and society itself.

His more recent books include The Brain and Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence - Selected Writings.

Reviews

[Lynnelle]

Listened as an audiobook. Similar to a podcast where they’re having a literary discussion and talking about emotional intelligence. Felt kind of vague or repeating things I’ve already heard about how we can train our minds because of the neuroplasticity and can change our mindset. They mention and talk about results of studies but I honestly thought they were going to share ways of being able to train our minds besides learning to meditate.

[Jake]

It's a quick read, a nice conversation between Goleman and Davidson.

[Lloyd]

Good conversationalist style audio book, that summarises research to date on training the brain, and the impacts of negative emotions

[G]

It's a good conversation but a bit short - there can be more on this topic

[Vetz]

I loved that it was a conversation. I was hoping they were going to talk about more personal ways to implement emotional intelligence. Overall great, quick and back by science.

[Qtprep1]

Short audiobook conversation. Nothing much you don’t already know such as the benefits of meditation

[M]

Not terrible! Could have benefitted significantly with more elaboration on some sections.

[Asif]

Pretty much gives your reasons for why one should meditate regularly

[Mitra]

This is a fairly "new" audio book as you can tell.
It gives you high level information on how different parts of brain interact when a person feels different emotions and points to the fact that there is always ways/skills which people can gain to tune their body/mind to response appropriately. This is why I like this book. However, the length of this CD(an hour!!!) and not detailed analysis ,are those things I am not happy about specially with its price.