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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Journalist
Psychologist
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Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.
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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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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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Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
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It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.
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Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.
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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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One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.
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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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Although traditional incentives such as bonuses or recognition can prod people to better performance, no external motivators can get people to perform at their absolute best. . . .Wherever people gravitate within their work roles, indicates where their real pleasure lies—and that pleasure is itself motivating.
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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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Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
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The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.
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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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In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
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Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
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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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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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When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
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