Daniel Goleman explains how vital emotional intelligence is to become successful in life. No longer is high IQ believed to catapult you ahead of the pack, but how stressors affect your performance. Emotional stress always creates a hierarchy of events that completely change both your sequence of thinking and your actions to combat that stressor. This kind of reminds me of the fight or flight response. Success is achieved on how you react emotionally to stress, whether you let that stress slide or you take it hard.