Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The New Emotional Intelligence
Travis Bradberry · 2025
🎙 Narrated by Tom Parks
63/100
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A practical, skill-based update to an already-popular EQ framework, with 60 concrete strategies and a fresh self-assessment tool worth having. Reception is mixed though — one reviewer flagged that a 2025 refresh oddly skips how digital life strains emotional regulation — and with no independent word on Tom Parks's narration, this reads as solid-but-not-essential rather than a must-listen.
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🎙 Narration: unknown Tom Parks narrates the 2025 Brilliance Audio edition; no independent critical performance review was located.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness62
Craft & writing60
Originality48
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit92
Human-eye read60
Penny’s verdict63
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