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When we focus on others, our world expands.
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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.
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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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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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Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.
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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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Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
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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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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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Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
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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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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
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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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As much as 80% of adult success comes from EQ.
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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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The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.
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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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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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Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.
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