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Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.
Daniel Goleman
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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
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People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.
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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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