10/16,/17,/18 13hrs 50mins (maybe longer)
This was a wonderful book but my biggest issue with this book was with the treatment of children who are social paras due to abuse or neglect. Daniel Goleman accurately says that children who are emotional illiterate are more likely to be shunned by there peers compounding the interaction issues. He then goes on to say that the adults these children end up as basically beyond hope and it feels like sub-textually that they should be punished. So I have great trepidation because we should ask ourselves culturally why we socially sacrifice children, who did not ask for the parents they have or other adult figures in their world?