Daniel Goleman Quotes - Page 5

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• I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

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  Thinking, People, Mind

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• 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.

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  Memories, School, Loss

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• There are a host of surprises among longer-term meditators, like a boost in the immune system from a day of practice, which is not seen in beginners, and a rapid recovery from stress or pain. At the "Olympic level" we find there is no anticipatory anxiety when the stress of pain is certain to come, and no lingering aftereffects - unlike the stress reactions in ordinary folk.

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  Pain, Stress, Recovery

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• If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

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  Meditation, Mindfulness, Moments

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• 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.

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  Children, Kids, Smartphones

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• Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

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  Air, Sea, Environmental

  "Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything". Book by Daniel Goleman, 2009.

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• Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

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  Thinking, Needs, Adjectives

  Daniel Goleman (2009). “Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything”, p.28, Crown Business

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• Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.

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  Leadership, Jobs, Emotional

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• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

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  Teacher, Talking, Feelings

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.413, Bantam

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• There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

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  Life, Fun, Psychology

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• But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

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  Should Have, Mind, Emotion

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• 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.

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  Strong, Book, Writing

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• Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

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  Thinking, Example, Biodegradable

  "O Interview: How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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• But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

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  Years, Notable, Increase

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• One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.

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  Memories, Feel Better, Loss

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.126, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Workout, Focus, Brain

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• Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

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  Life, Survival, Essentials

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Successful, Emotional

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• What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.

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  Years, Practice, Degrees

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

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• Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

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  People, Importance, Western

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• I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

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  Thinking, Focus, Kind

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• We're exposed and carry in our bodies multiple chemicals, and we have to understand how they interact. Both how they individually interact and the thousands of effects they can produce when they interact with the receptors that run our bodies.

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  Running, Body, Chemicals

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• The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks

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  People, Links, Simpatico

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.207, Bantam

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• Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

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  Motivational, Father, Skills

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