Daniel Goleman Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

  Daniel Goleman

  Fighting, People, Broken

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.200, Bantam

• Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

  Daniel Goleman

  Workout, Focus, Brain

• For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.

  Daniel Goleman

  Achievement, Challenges, Flow

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.156, Bantam

• There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short daily mindfulness practice in beginners also improves memory, to the point that a group of students who volunteered for a study got significantly better scores on their graduate school entrance exams.

  Daniel Goleman

  Memories, School, Loss

• While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

  Daniel Goleman

  Mind, Asian, Study

• For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities...The low achievers found pleasure and flow in socializing, not in studying.

  Daniel Goleman

  Learning, Anxiety, Challenges

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.156, Bantam

• I don't really follow meditation hype. But my impression is that poor studies are cited as "proof" of meditation's benefits, findings that apply to advanced meditators are sometimes touted as accruing to beginners, and, occasionally, some benefits are simply imagined. This may be most true in the business world, where many companies are bringing in teachers who are a bit loose in their use of research as evidence for the usefulness of the method.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Meditation, World

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