ABSTRACT
Daniel Goleman’s parents, Irving and Fay were both born to immigrant parents. Both worked as professors at San Joaquin Delta Community College; Irving was teaching in the humanities and Fay, a social worker who taught in the sociology department. Just as the great intelligence debate seemed to be running out of steam, Daniel’s emotional intelligence kick-started an entirely new debate. Daniel performed well at school, becoming high school president and then attaining a leadership scholarship to attend Amherst College, Massachusetts to study anthropology. Daniel’s supervisor David McClelland was instrumental in supporting Daniel’s interdisciplinary interests and with the award of a travel fellowship, Daniel was able to travel to India to study the religious practices of the Asiatic religions and the function of ancient systems of psychology in dynamic interdisciplinary cultures. The uptake in the business community was no less impressive, and by 1998 Daniel had published Working with Emotional Intelligence.
