ANDREW FRASER is a London-based writer and editor with a specialist interest in meditation and Buddhism. After graduating from Cambridge University, he trained as a journalist and worked for the BBC, covering major sporting events, including the 2012 Olympic Games. He has been practicing Tibetan Buddhism since 2002, and he regularly attends retreats at Lerab Ling in France. A prolific writer, Andrew is also the editor of View, The Rigpa Journal, an annual magazine on meditation and Tibetan Buddhism, which was founded in 2007.
Psychologist Daniel Goleman was born on March 7, 1946 in Stockton, California. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard. Goleman wrote his first book, "The Meditative Mind" after studying ancient psychology systems and meditation practices in India and Sri Lanka. Goleman wrote about psychology and related fields for the New York Times for 12 years beginning in 1984. In 1993 he co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. He is also a co-chairman of The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations and a member of the Mind and Life Institute's board of directors. Goleman has written several popular books, including "Emotional Intelligence," "Social… Intelligence," "Ecological Intelligence" and "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence." He received a Career Achievement award for journalism from the American Psychological Association and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to recognize his efforts to communicate the behavioral sciences to the public.