Romantic Intelligence: How to Be as Smart in Love as You Are in Life

By John Valentis and Mary Valentis

Book Overview

High intelligence may predict one's speed at solving maths problems or whether one might win a Nobel Prize, but it does not guarantee success, happiness or personal fulfilment. This text teaches... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572243309
• ISBN13: 9781572243309
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A lot of fluff, but a lot of meat, too.

This book is probably better for the high school and college crowd. There are a lot of passages that do little work for the point the authors are trying to make. They'll go on for a while about what an emotionally intelligent person is like, but then say very little about how one develops the skills to become one. Then there are passages where there is a lot of really good, densely packed information on exactly that point. There are also exercises in the book, and most of them seem really worthwhile.

Smart and Strong

The flood of self-help books has brought an inundation of bad advice. It's refreshing to read a book that actually has something to say. Drs. Valentis (Mary and John) provide a context and a level of empathy that instructs and encourages growth and intimacy without being either pedantic or purile. There are no instant fixes, no pablum filled chicken soups for the soul, just common sense combined with a smart, well educated and sensitive approach. This book is a road map, but it's up to the reader to do the driving.