Emotional Intelligence 2.0

I bought this ebook last year but it is not until this week that I got to start reading it.We are supposed to get an email with a passcode to go online and take a personalized test, but I am unable to contact Amazon to have it sent.Other than that the book is amazing. Still being able to take the online test would be better!

Great Book, great read

Meh.

The book arrived with the needed code to take the self-assessment.

The beginning of the book states that it is best to take your Emotional Intelligence Appraisal before reading but I received no link for the appraisal. Where do I find that?

I love this book!!

Work required read.

Emotional maturity

I was expecting much much more. First half of the book simply state and repeat how important emotional intelligence is and how easy it is to improve it. According to the authors, any kind of problem in life is due to lack of emotional intelligence. Learn EQ and you will have success everywhere, etc. This is followed by the description of some personalities (maybe fake) that had success in life due to their emotional intelligence inspired personalities. Very verbose. No practical tips, only verbose discussion mostly based on author's opinion. No valid scientific references and no scientific metrics. Second half gives some tips for training EQ but it is very basic and again very verbose. In gives mostly obvious tips like "smile to people", "be nice", "observe behaviour". I found it useless.

I've already had the audio book version of it but as the authors raved about their online EQ test ( how informative it is and how it will help to build development plan etc.) I decided to buy a paper copy just to get the access to EQ test.It was a waste of money as the test is literally around 30 rating scale questions about your behaviours. The results are very generic, short and poorly presented (as you have to navigate between your results page and the explanation behind it, ) it is not personalised. I have taken some free tests that were much more informative than this. The book itself is a good read, but if I would have known how basic their test was I would have not bought new paper copy but sticked with the audio book that I already had.

Many times I have thought what a person makes more likeable than others, but as well as other factor to close deals or be more symphatetic with other people. Sor far, I am enjoying the book so much and learning loads from my own decisions and the way I am thinking during conflicts or situations. Worth the read

I was expecting a lot more from this book. The formatting was super annoying, with text boxes breaking the text which only repeated what was written in the paragraph. The line spacing is too large and the font and tone are annoying.There are a couple of good suggestions but other than that it's a lot of stating the obvious with an advertising-like tone. Also asserts that IQ is fixed from birth which is still an unclear topic. Several ideas are introduced but none are supported by references to actual literature, and none are followed up in any meaningful way.

I got this on a recommendation after a 1 day workshop .. it’s brilliant and the added online test etc is fantastic .. can’t wait to start putting the strategies into practice