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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Journalist
Psychologist
Researcher
Writer
Chinatown
Stockton
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What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.
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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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If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
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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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A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless one blind to the world of others will be clueless those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.
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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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....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.
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Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.
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As much as 80% of adult success comes from EQ.
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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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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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Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.
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Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
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Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.
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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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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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Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.
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Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.
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Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.
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