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

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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Psychologist
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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 social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
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Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.
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In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
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The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
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We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.
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Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.
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Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.
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Compassion begins with attention.
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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
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Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.
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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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Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
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Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.
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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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When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
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People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.
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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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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.
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I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
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