Why do some people possess greater emotional well-being? Why are some better able to achieve success in life? Bar-On and Stein’s work gave a new vision about these and other basic questions that remained with no answer.
And so the Emotional Intelligence revolution began.
In the past few decades educators and psychologists have been making an effort to understand intelligence and achievement on a more nuanced level than in the past. When Alfred Binet developed his “intelligence” tests in the early years of the 20th century, he revolutionized the educational field by providing tools to measure and predict students’ success. Unfortunately, standard tests came to rely almost exclusively on the sort of intelligence revealed by these instruments: the kind that correlates highly with success in typical Western school systems but not necessarily with real world achievement. [Read more…]
