Daniel Goleman Quotes

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

Happy, calm children learn best

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks

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.

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning--every teacher should know about it.