As much as 80% of adult “success” comes from EQ.
Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.
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.
Doggedness depends on emotional traits – enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks – above all else.
Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head – feeling and thought – meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
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 an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
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 only that. You also need to train your mind.
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of ‘green’ as a verb, not an adjective.
In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.
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 Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the ‘primary process’ – the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.
Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?
The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks.
Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind’s processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.
What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.
Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.
Emotions are contagious. We’ve all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.