Quotes About Awareness

Is it true? (Is the stressful or negative thought true?) 2. Can I absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do I react when I believe that thought? 4. Who would I be without the thought? Or, how would I feel if I didn't have the thought?

Studies such as these demonstrate that once we have an experience, we cannot simply set it aside and see the world as we would have seen it had the experience never happened.

The key to happiness, fulfilment and enlightenment, the ex-professor argued, was to stop thinking so much about the future.

This frontal lobe—the last part of the human brain to evolve, the slowest to mature, and the first to deteriorate in old age—is a time machine that allows each of us to vacate the present and experience the future before it happens.

Surprise tells us that we were expecting something other than what we got, even when we didn't know we were expecting anything at all.

machines and invertebrates prove that it doesn't take a smart, self-aware, conscious brain to make simple predictions

The key to happiness, fulfillment, and enlightenment, the ex-professor argued, was to stop thinking so much about the future.

if you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

Imagination cannot easily transcend the boundaries of the present, and one reason for this is that it must borrow machinery that is owned by perception. The fact that these two processes must run on the same platform means that we are sometimes confused about which one is running. We assume that what we feel as we imagine the future is what we'll feel when we get there, but in fact, what we feel as we imagine the future is often a response to what's happening in the present.

emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like

The mind that leaps is the mind that lives.

it is springtime and I am blind"... Clarity depends on contrast - 134

First, we can distance through space. The classic move is known, unsurprisingly, as the "fly-on-the-wall technique.

Perhaps you're familiar with the First Law of Holes: "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." And perhaps you've ignored this law.

Buy a small notebook and begin carrying it with you wherever you go. When you see great design, make a note of it.

Listening to the conversations of those nearby has a bad reputation. But we all do it, so we might as well make it worthwhile. Next time you're in a position to eavesdrop, listen carefully to what your targets are saying. Then imagine yourself as one of those people in that situation. What are you (that is, him or her) thinking and feeling at that moment? What emotions, if any, are coursing through your body? How did you end up in this particular place at this particular time?

McKinsey Global Institute estimates that the typical American hears or reads more than one hundred thousand words every day.

In those situations, the ability to move others hinges less on problem solving than on problem finding.

Empathy is the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's position and to intuit what that person is feeling. It is the ability to stand in others' shoes, to see with their eyes, and to feel with their hearts. It is something we do pretty much spontaneously, an act of instinct rather than the product of deliberation.