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It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.
Happy, calm children learn best
Compassion begins with attention.
Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.
When we focus on others, our world expands.
As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.
Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.
Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.
The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.
Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.
Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.
The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks
Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.
IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.
I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.
Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/
