Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
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… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial… — 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
What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. The brightest among us can founder on the shoals of unbridled passions and… — 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… — 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
Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ -… — 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
