Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Published 1995 · 120,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, Nonfiction, Psychology
How hard is Emotional Intelligence to read?
Emotional Intelligence scores 18 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 30 out of 100
- Accessible psychology and neuroscience. Key terms well-defined.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Abstraction: 35 out of 100
- Psychological concepts grounded in research and anecdotes.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Research findings, case studies, and practical advice.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Direct presentation of research and principles.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Analytical rather than symbolic.
- Ironic distance: 100 out of 100
- Earnest, instructive tone.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Clear thesis supported and practical advice offered.
- Structural complexity: 20 out of 100
- Five parts with clear progression from science to application.
How Emotional Intelligence is regarded
Emotional Intelligence holds a literary regard score of 48 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.