Quotes from Daniel Goleman

La capacidad emocional, pues, no constituye un dato inmutable puesto que, con el aprendizaje adecuado, puede modificarse.

El estado de ánimo de las personas cuando su mente divaga tiende, hablando en términos generales, hacia lo displacentero, hasta el punto de que pensamientos con un contenido aparentemente neutro se ven ensombrecidos por una carga emocional negativa. Pareciera como si la mente errante fuese, en parte o casi totalmente, una de las causas de la infelicidad.

I can foresee a day when education will routinely include inculcating essential human competencies such as self-awareness, self-control, and empathy, and the arts of listening, resolving conflicts, and cooperation.

When girls play together, they do so in small, intimate groups, with an emphasis on minimizing hostility and maximizing cooperation, while boys' games are in larger groups, with an emphasis on competition. One key difference can be seen in what happens when games boys or girls are playing get disrupted by someone getting hurt. If a boy who has gotten hurt gets upset, he is expected to get out of the way and stop crying so the game can go on.

os sentimentos são essenciais para o pensamento e vice-versa. Mas, quando surgem as paixões, esse equilíbrio se desfaz: é a mente emocional que assume o comando, inundando a mente racional.

Los CEO son contratados por su capacidad intelectual y su experiencia comercial y despedidos por su falta de inteligencia emocional».

Csikszentmihalyi told me, "People seem to concentrate best when the demands on them are a bit greater than usual, and they are able to give more than usual. If there is too little demand on them, people are bored. If there is too much for them to handle, they get anxious. Flow occurs in that delicate zone between boredom and anxiety.

largo de un proceso conocido con el nombre de «podado», el cerebro va perdiendo las conexiones neuronales menos frecuentadas y fortaleciendo aquellos circuitos sinápticos más utilizados. De este modo, el «podado», al eliminar las sinapsis menos utilizadas, mejora la relación señal/ruido del cerebro extirpando la causa misma del «ruido».

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 effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

alteran la función neuroendocrina y provocan desequilibrios de los sistemas inmunitario y nervioso, de modo que somos más propensos a sufrir enfermedades y nos cuesta pensar con claridad. El ritmo circadiano se trastorna y dormimos mal.

The debris that buried Steve saved his life as the plane's fuselage exploded

it seems likely that the states we practice in meditation gradually spill over into daily life to mold our traits—at least when it comes to handling stress.

They believe that anyone can do well in school with the right effort.

There are two major streams of self-awareness: "me," which builds narratives about our past and future; and "I," which brings us into the immediate present. The "me," as we've seen, links together what we experience across time. The "I," in stark contrast, exists only in the raw experience of our immediate moment.

Just seeing someone express an emotion can evoke that mood, whether you realize you mimic the facial expression or not. This happens to us all the time—there's a dance, a synchrony, a transmission of emotions. This mood synchrony determines whether you feel an interaction went well or not." The

selection focuses almost exclusively on intellectual abilities, emotional intelligence carries much more weight than IQ in determining who emerges as a leader.

each emotion prepares the body for a very different kind of response:7

It takes a panoramic attention to appreciate system-level interactions

Existen dos tipos de miedos, señala el Dalai Lama: el miedo irreal, que nos impele innecesariamente hacia un estado agitado de cavilaciones baldías, y el tipo útil, que nos hace cautos o nos activa y prepara de cara a una amenaza esperada.

En resumen, pues, el reaprendizaje emocional –una tarea que, ciertamente, no concluye nunca– puede remodelar hasta los hábitos emocionales más profundamente arraigados de nuestra infancia.

El afecto actúa como antídoto del miedo. «Si me demuestras un afecto genuino –señaló el Dalai Lama–, entonces y automáticamente siento que esa persona está siendo muy amable conmigo, y por eso confío en ella. Si no tienes miedo, te relajas, te sientes seguro».

liderazgo no es sinónimo de dominación, sino el arte de convencer a la gente de que colabore para alcanzar un objetivo común.

tipo de «calma» que percibe en la compasión se entremezcla con una mente lúcida y un corazón afectuoso.

your personal strengths, as a leader?