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Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Journalist
Psychologist
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Stockton
Daydreaming
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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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Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
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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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IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.
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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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A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
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Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
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Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.
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When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
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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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As much as 80% of adult success comes from EQ.
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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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Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.
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Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
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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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Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.
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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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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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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
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