Bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman and coauthor Cary Cherniss reveal practical methods for applying the principles of EI to enter an optimal state of high performance offering a roadmap to being at your best every day.There are moments when we achieve peak performance an athlete plays a perfect game a business has a quarter with onceinalifetime profits. But these moments are often fleeting and for every amazing day we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying ones. Fulfillment doesnt come from isolated peak experiences or elusive flow states but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance In Optimal Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day any day. They explain how to set a realistic attainable goal of feeling satisfied that youve had a productive day to consistently work at your optimal level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day they sketch what an optimal state feels like and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance.Optimal is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement productivity and more satisfying days. In this book youll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.