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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.
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Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.
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Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
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Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.
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If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
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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.
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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.
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Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.
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But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we should have !
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Happy, calm children learn best
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It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.
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As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.
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The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
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Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.
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A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
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Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.
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Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.
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The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.
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Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
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