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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Journalist
Psychologist
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Daydreaming
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Compassion begins with attention.
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Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.
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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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One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.
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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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Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.
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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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Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
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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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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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One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.
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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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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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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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Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
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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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Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.
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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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But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
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