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What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

Daniel Goleman

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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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