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
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? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it. – Daniel Goleman
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
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 needed – at will and voluntarily. – Daniel Goleman
Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable. – Daniel Goleman
In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding. – Daniel Goleman
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
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own. – Daniel Goleman
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. – Daniel Goleman
True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it. – Daniel Goleman
Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control. – Daniel Goleman
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
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. – Daniel Goleman
The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company’s bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy. – Daniel Goleman
The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay. – Daniel Goleman
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them. – Daniel Goleman
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there’s more need for affiliation. – Daniel Goleman
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us. – Daniel Goleman
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
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we’re talking with someone face-to-face in real time. – Daniel Goleman
The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be. – Daniel Goleman
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
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
However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years. – Daniel Goleman
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
