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Daniel Goleman

American Author

Born: Mar 7, 1946

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If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. Daniel Goleman

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. Daniel Goleman

Pain Simply Empathy Attention Person Paying Prerequisite

Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors. Daniel Goleman

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The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. Daniel Goleman

Intelligence Thinking Responds More Emotional Brain Quickly Than Event

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck. Daniel Goleman

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. Daniel Goleman

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If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. Daniel Goleman

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There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain. Daniel Goleman

Correlation Emotional Empathy Between Parts Brain Controlled Different Different Parts Zero

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. Daniel Goleman

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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. Daniel Goleman

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Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing. Daniel Goleman

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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. Daniel Goleman

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Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes. Daniel Goleman

You Focus Stronger Single Detach Distracting Mental More Studies Attention Becomes Brain Sustain Which Should Show Paying Workouts Chosen

As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia. Daniel Goleman

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While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind. Daniel Goleman

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But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before. Daniel Goleman

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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. Daniel Goleman

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My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. Daniel Goleman

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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 empathic father. Daniel Goleman

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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 we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. Daniel Goleman

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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. Daniel Goleman

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