Life & Wisdom Quote by Daniel Goleman

There’s a quiet salesmanship to Goleman’s phrasing: he’s not arguing, he’s normalizing. “Notable increase” and “much wider slice” do the work of persuasion without ever sounding like persuasion. The sentence is built like a trend report, the kind of incremental certainty that makes a practice feel less like a gamble and more like the next sensible upgrade. In other words: if more therapists are doing it, the reader is nudged to treat “these applications” as credible, even overdue.

The subtext is professional legitimacy. Psychotherapy is a field that prizes clinical seriousness and is wary of fads, so invoking “a much wider slice of psychotherapists” functions as a stamp of mainstream adoption. Goleman doesn’t name the skeptics, but they’re implied; “far greater interest than ever before” is a preemptive rebuttal to anyone dismissing the approach as fringe. He’s also signaling that the shift isn’t just among true believers or a boutique subset, but across the working middle of the profession.

Context matters: Goleman’s public brand is translating psychology into culturally actionable concepts (most famously emotional intelligence). This sentence reads like part of that larger project: mapping a diffusion-of-innovation story where science, institutions, and everyday practice converge. It’s less about the applications themselves than about the social proof surrounding them. The rhetorical move is classic Goleman: make a complex development feel measurable, inevitable, and safely endorsed by people in the room.