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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
Author
Journalist
Psychologist
Researcher
Writer
Chinatown
Stockton
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Children
Classroom
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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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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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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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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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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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The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
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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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As much as 80% of adult success comes from EQ.
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Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.
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Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.
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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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Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.
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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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Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
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Compassion begins with attention.
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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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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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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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Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.
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Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.
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