"People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature." ― Daniel Goleman Topic(s): Age More From Daniel Goleman "The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain." "But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job." "When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills." More In Age "Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."― Christopher Lasch "The golden age is before us, not behind us."― William Shakespeare "Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."― George Orwell