He wrote his first book based on travel in India and Sri Lanka. While in India, he spent time with spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba, who was also the guru to Ram Dass, Krishna Das and Larry Brilliant. Goleman studied in India using a pre-doctoral fellowship from Harvard and a post-doctoral grant from the Social Science Research Council. His mother's brother was nuclear physicist Alvin M. and Irving Goleman (1898–1961), humanities professor at the Stockton College (now San Joaquin Delta College).
Apart from his books on emotional intelligence, Goleman has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social and emotional learning, ecoliteracy and the ecological crisis, and the Dalai Lama’s vision for the future.ĭaniel Goleman grew up in a Jewish household in Stockton, California, the son of Fay Goleman (née Weinberg 1910–2010), professor of sociology at the University of the Pacific, Abhishekam etv serial today episode. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times Best Seller list for a year-and-a-half, a best-seller in many countries, and is in print worldwide in 40 languages. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences.
Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an author and science journalist.