Quotes from Daniel Goleman

What makes data more useful is the person curating it.5 Ideally, the person who curates information will zero in on what matters, prune away the rest, establish a context for what the data means, and do all that in a way that shows why it is vital—and so captures people's attention.

Los niños pequeños no se preocupan de la posición de alguien, ni de su educación o de si es rico o pobre –dice–. Responden a la sonrisa en tu rostro».

para conseguir que hagamos lo que le interesa, la naturaleza lo convierte en un placer».

Feelings of inclusion depend not so much on having frequent social contacts or numerous relationships as on how accepted we feel, even in just a few key relationships.

A mais antiga raiz de nossa vida emocional está no sentido do olfato, ou, mais precisamente, no lobo olfativo, células que absorvem e analisam o cheiro.

El Dalai Lama compartió un dato del que se enteró hace tiempo: si a los recién nacidos se les sostiene regularmente con afecto, sus cerebros se desarrollan mejor que en aquellos que se desatienden, y que apenas se les toca, por no hablar de sostenerlos.51 Los bebés separados de sus padres muestran timidez e impotencia, y los monos separados de bebés de sus madres crecen estando más tensos y siendo más agresivos.52

Como el músculo sometido a un sobreesfuerzo, la atención intensamente focalizada también se fatiga, llegando incluso al punto del agotamiento cognitivo. Los signos de fatiga mental afectan a la eficacia y aumentan la distracción y la irritabilidad, lo que significa que el esfuerzo mental necesario para mantener el foco ha agotado la glucosa que precisa la energía neuronal.

The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning--every teacher should know about it.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.

Singapore has no natural resources, no great army, no special political sway. Its secret lies in its people—and the government has intentionally cultivated these human resources as the driver of its economy. Schools are the incubator for Singapore's outstanding workforce.

In 80 percent of airline crashes, pilots make mistakes that could have been prevented, particularly if the crew worked together more harmoniously. Teamwork, open lines of communication, cooperation, listening, and speaking one's mind—rudiments of social intelligence—are now emphasized in training pilots, along with technical prowess.

You can't separate the cause of an emotion from the world of relationships—our social interactions are what drive our emotions.

There is much to be said for the constructive contribution to creative and spiritual life; suffering can temper the soul.

Una serie de nuevos estudios realizados en el National Institute of Mental Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental) han hallado que antes de los dos años de edad los niños parecen universalmente sintonizados con la congoja de otro niño y la mayoría de las veces intentan ayudarle de algún modo.

practical intelligence is rarely the main factor in a star's outstanding job performance.

Good work involves the intertwining of three features: excellence, engagement, and ethics. Good work is technically excellent work—people know what they're doing. It's personally engaging and meaningful. They want to do it. They look forward to going to work. They don't dread it. And it's carried out in an ethical way.

Aristotle put it, the rare skill "to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way.

Moral sentiments derive from empathy, and moral reflections take thinking and focus. One cost of the frenetic stream of distractions we face today, some fear, is an erosion of empathy and compassion.19 The more distracted we are, the less we can exhibit attunement and caring.

the abilities that distinguish the outstanding supervisors in technical fields are not technical, but rather relate to handling people.14 So to a degree, experience and expertise, like IQ, matter—but there is much more to the story when it comes to excellence.

There is much to be said for the constructive contribution of suffering to creative and spiritual life; suffering can temper the soul.

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nichomachean Ethics

Researchers find that the prevalence of obesity in the United States over the last thirty years tracks the explosion of computers and tech gadgets in people's lives—and suspect this is no accidental correlation.

An estimated 85 percent of those with dyssemia have the deficit because they failed to learn how to read nonverbal signals or how to respond to them, either because they did not interact enough with their peers or because their family did not display a given range of emotion or followed eccentric social norms.

el reconocimiento de que nos hemos distraído es el primer paso para recuperar la concentración