Daniel Goleman Quotes

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• When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions. Distressing
• There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain. Body
• People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature. Age
• A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. Attention
• 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… Aside
• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. Anti War
• Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it?… Allows
• But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how… Determine
• I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do… Distressing
• My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in… Adult
• Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time… Act
• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. Comfortable
• Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing. Ability
• Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional… All
• I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be… Accountant
• 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… Attention
• The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight… Amygdala
• However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years. Began
• I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be. Bad
• If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. Ability

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