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Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better. (Daniel Goleman)
Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways. View quote
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Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit. View quote
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Happy, calm children learn best. View quote
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The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood. View quote
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The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay. View quote
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The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices. View quote
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Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort. View quote
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Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also matters immensely for our personal destiny. View quote
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When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere. View quote
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Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset. (Daniel Goleman)
What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests. View quote
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Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance. View quote
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Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny. View quote
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The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff. View quote
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In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding. View quote
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The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing. View quote
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Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood. View quote
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Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival. View quote
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For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway. View quote
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Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory. (Daniel Goleman)
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. View quote
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Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. View quote
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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. View quote
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Positive work environments outperform negative work environments. View quote
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