After the reign of I.Q., the tyrannical intelligence quotient, scientists today emphasize how significant human emotions are. Their role is essential in communication as well as in being persuasive.

Anxiety, shame, depression, defeatism, insecurity, threat, violence, and loneliness. Do all these evils that threaten humanity have a common cause? Can we cure them without antidepressants, anxiolytics, and sleeping pills? Could it be that our body, our "pharmacy," as Hippocrates said, holds the cure for each illness?

In school, we learn history, geography, mathematics, and more, but nothing about how to be effective with ourselves and consequently with others. Would it not be useful, for example, to teach us what the stages of grief are, what anger is, what it means to avoid a conflict by preferring the solution of non-violence, instead of memorizing the names of the prophets of the Old Testament?

It is high time we learned to understand our emotions, as they will liberate us from the "diseases" that torment us. It means absolutely nothing to have a high IQ when one does not know how to draw strength and healing from the deep life-giving source of positive emotions hidden within.

Self-confidence, creativity, autonomy, and self-sufficiency are strengths that we will draw from the human heart, emotional intelligence that arises from our relationships with one another; it is the intelligence of tomorrow.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]