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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 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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Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.
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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 prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
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Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.
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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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What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.
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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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IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.
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people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like
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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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The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks
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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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Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
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The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.
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There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is to move.
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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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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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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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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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