If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
From Daniel Goleman
Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
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.
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
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.
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.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
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