In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands – knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.
Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.
The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership – they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.
Compassion begins with attention.
Western business people often don’t get the importance of establishing human relationships.
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise – and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
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 messages.
When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences – the first person – with what the measurements show – the third person.
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 we go shopping.
However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.
I don’t think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.