Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
“What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development.” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
“Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychologist. He discovered that people who have greater activity in the left frontal lobe, compared to the right,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety? — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
