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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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Children

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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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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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True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
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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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Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.
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The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.
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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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When we focus on others, our world expands.
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Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.
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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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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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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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There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is to move.
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Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
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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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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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Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.
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Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.
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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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