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 I. Biography
Daniel Goleman was born in Stockton, California. The San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton (California) was named the Goleman Library
after Goleman's family. Goleman then went to Amherst College where he was an Alfred P. Sloan Scholar and graduated magna cum laude. He began graduate school at Harvard where he was a Ford Fellow,
and he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology and personality development. At Harvard he met professor of psychology David McClelland who was his friend. This man inspired him to write about emotional
quota or EQ. Unfortunately, David McClelland died.
During his years at Harvard, he went to India and he learned how to meditate. Dr. Goleman's life has been filled with meditation ever since. He spends much of his life
meditating constantly to try to escape from the world he exists in and meditation is powerful for making the mind strong. Meditating relieves his stress. He continues this
practice of meditating that he had learned in India and hopes to improve his life.
He decided to be writer for twelve years and he was a psychologist who reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for the New York Times
for many years. He was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, but unfortunately for him, he never won. Of course, our great friend Dr. Daniel Goleman was not to be deterred because men of high emotional
intelligence do not fail as often. He would write many books in his career about meditation or emotional intelligence. He wrote a groundbreaking book that finally was getting him a
large name in the world of journalism. The book was called Emotional Intelligence.
He married his second wife Tara-Bennet Goleman. He lives in Berkshires of Massachusetts
that is near Western Massachusetts. Planning to go to Daniel Goleman's house? Well his house has an extensive and treacherous road that leads to his Japanese teahouse that is
sitting on a hill. His wife is a practiced master of the Japanese tea ceremony. Daniel Goleman goes to his teahouse and meditates. Tara is a psychotherapist. After doing his
meditating everyday in the morning Daniel Goleman begins writing on his laptop computer that happens to be in the Japanese teahouse.
Some of Daniel Goleman's achievements were the co-founding of the Collaborative for
Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (this has since moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago). He is CEO of Emotional Intelligence
Services, which is a consulting firm in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Daniel Goleman is co-chairman
of The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations and has a Career Achievement award for journalism from the American Psychological Association.
Currently Dan travels around the world to places such as Germany and talks mainly to international and professional people. He loves to lecture to highly educated people such
as college students. He likes to travel and lecture and recently went to Germany on the Valentine's holiday. He rarely stays in one spot for too long.
II. Literary Works
Varieties of the Meditative Experience (1977)
Consciousness: Brain, States of Awareness, and Mysticism (1979); coauthored with Richard J. Davidson
Psychology Snows That Everyone Should (1981); coauthored with Jonathan Freedman
Introductory Psychology (1982); coauthored with Engen Trudd and Anthony Davids
The Essential Psychotherapies (1982); coauthored with Kathleen Riordan
Frames: Attentional Policies (1984)
Vitalized Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception (1985)
The Meditative Mind (1988)
The Creative Spirit (1992)
The Riddle of Consciousness (1993); coauthored with Charles Tart, Roger Walsh and Ken Wilber
Mind, Body Medicine: How to Use Your Mind for Better Health (1993); coauthored with Joel Gurin
Emotional Intelligence (1995)
Gifts of the Spirit: Living the Wisdom of the Great Religious Traditions (1997)
Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health (1997)
Numerous articles published in periodicals such as: Cosmopolitan, American Health,
People, The New York Times, Time, National Review, School Library Journal, Commentary, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Publisher's Weekly, Journal of Transpersonal
Psychology, Journal of Altered States of Consciousness, Choice, Observer, Psychosomatic Medicine, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis,
American Journal of Psychotherapy, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol.
III. Sources
Eiconsorintium. "Daniel Goleman." 13 Feb 99
"Daniel Goleman." Library of Congress Catalogs. Library of Congress. 1999
This essay was submitted by students of Matthew Weeks, a teacher at St. Mary's High School in Stockton, California
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