Daniel Goleman knows people. I don’t mean he knows “people”, that he is connected to celebrities or gangsters or politicians, although I suppose he might be. I mean he gets people, he understands people. He has a keen appreciation for the scientific basis of why we are the way we are - why some of us are natural flirts while others of us have a hard time getting a second date; why some of us are wired to make a great first impression at a job interview while others are useless at navigating office politics.