Quotes from Daniel Goleman

Limbic structures generate feelings of pleasure and sexual desire—the emotions that feed sexual passion. But the addition of the neocortex and its connections to the limbic system allowed for the mother-child bond that is the basis of the family unit and the long-term commitment to childrearing that makes human development possible. (Species that have no neocortex, such as reptiles, lack maternal affection; when their young hatch, the newborns must hide to avoid being cannibalized.)

O pensamento profundo exige a sustentação de uma mente focada. Quanto mais distraídos estivermos, mais superficiais serão as nossas reflexões; de igual modo, quanto mais curtas forem, maior probabilidade terão de ser triviais.

Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near-constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. Forget that resolve to diet. Lost in the digital world we mindlessly reach for the Pringles.

se contrata a los directores generales por su intelecto y su pericia empresarial y se los despide por su falta de inteligencia emocional».

Unless things change, the long-term prospects for today's children marrying and having a fruitful, stable life together are growing more dismal with each generation.

Leaders who display just the pacesetting or command style—or both—but not any others create a toxic climate, one that dispirits those they lead. Such leaders may get short-term results through personal heroics, like going out and getting a deal themselves, but do so at the expense of building their organizations.

As distrações mais poderosas são as nossas emoções; qualquer coisa acerca da qual tenhamos sentimentos poderosos atrai a nossa atenção. As pessoas que são mais focadas conseguem resistir a essa atração magnética e manter-se focadas noutra coisa.

Antisocial teenage girls don't get violent, they get pregnant.

Is it just for me, or for others? For the benefit of the few, or the many? For now, or for the future?

las emociones descontroladas pueden convertir en estúpida a la gente más inteligente.

When we teach about anger, we help kids understand that it is almost always a secondary reaction and to look for what's underneath—are you hurt? jealous?

Según Damasio, para tomar una buena decisión tenemos que aplicar sentimientos a los pensamientos

Una investigación realizada por Howard Gardner, de Stanford, William Damon, de Harvard, y Csikszentmihalyi, de Claremont, se centró en lo que ellos llamaban un "buen trabajo", una combinación entre la ética (es decir, lo que uno cree que le gusta) y aquello en lo que destaca (es decir, lo que realmente le gusta).

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.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

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.

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.

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: … The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

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

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

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.

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.

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.

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.