The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain. — 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
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
Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. — 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
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 Image
“What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development.” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
