We often think of resilience as “grit”—the ability to bite your tongue, suppress your emotions, and power through pain. But Daniel Goleman, the father of Emotional Intelligence, argues that this definition is biologically wrong.In today’s 5-minute briefing on his influential work “Resilience for the Rest of Us,” we explore the neuroscience of recovery. Discover why true resilience isn’t about how much you can endure, but how quickly you recover from an upset, and why this metric is the only one that matters to your brain.
Daniel Goleman is a psychologist and former science journalist for The New York Times, where he reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for over a decade. He holds a PhD from Harvard University. Goleman is best known for his 1995 international bestseller, Emotional Intelligence, which …
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