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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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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.
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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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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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In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
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There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.
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....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.
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Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
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One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.
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But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we should have !
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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
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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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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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Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
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In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.
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Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.
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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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A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
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Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
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