Knowing Our Emotions, Improving Our World (Wired to Connect: Dialogues on Social Intelligence, 1)

Paul Ekman details steps to greater mastery of our emotional life- skills like increasing the gap between our impulses and our actions, making anger constructive, reading another person's emotions, detecting lies, and self-awareness. Emotional intelligence skills like the three kinds of empathy- cognitive, emotional and compassionate- are learnable, Ekman argues. Sharpening our emotional abilities will not only enrich our lives, but holds a key to a better world for ourselves and for future generations.