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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Journalist
Psychologist
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When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.
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Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
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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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Happy, calm children learn best
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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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A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless one blind to the world of others will be clueless those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.
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As much as 80% of adult success comes from EQ.
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Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.
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When we focus on others, our world expands.
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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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Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.
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The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.
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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
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Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
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Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.
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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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Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.
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Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
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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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I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
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