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Compassion begins with attention.

Daniel Goleman

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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Journalist
Psychologist
Researcher
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Chinatown
Stockton
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Compassion
Attention

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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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Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
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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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I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
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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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The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
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Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
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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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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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