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Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

Daniel Goleman

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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.
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Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
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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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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.
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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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The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
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Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.
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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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Compassion begins with attention.
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Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also matters immensely for our personal destiny.
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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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Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.
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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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True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
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Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.
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