The inability to resist checking email or Facebook rather than focus on the person talking to us leads to what the sociologist Erving Goffman, a masterly observer of social interaction, called an away...
She had moved to Los Angeles from the Midwest, lured by a job with a publisher. But the publisher was bought by another soon after, and she was left without a job. Turning to freelance writing, an err...
Posner’s group proposes that attention training should be part of the education of every child, giving a boost in learning across the board.
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-effic...
Para acercar al trabajador desmotivado al estado de flujo es necesario intensificar la motivación y el entusiasmo, evocar una sensación de objetivo y agregar una pizca de presión.
Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence o...
No podemos controlar lo que vamos a sentir, pero sí decidir qué hacemos a continuación.
Life’s creative challenges rarely come in the form of well-formulated puzzles. Instead we often have to recognize the very need to find a creative solution in the first place. Chance, as Louis Pasteur...
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 persona...
Las personas con alta autoestima –afirma Epstein– llevan, en efecto, en su interior un padre orgulloso de los éxitos de su hijo y tolerante con sus fracasos. Esta clase de individuos tiende a tener un...
La vida es una comedia para quienes piensan y una tragedia para quienes sienten. Horace Walpole
La transición no provendrá de los decretos gubernamentales si no de las mejoras que el individuo intente lograr y que otros apoyen espontáneamente.- Dalai Lama
La mayor parte de las veces no podemos dictar qué emociones vamos a sentir, cuándo vamos a sentirlas ni con qué fuerza.
In many or most moments these minds are exquisitely coordinated; feelings are essential to thought, thought to feeling. But when passions surge the balance tips: it is the emotional mind that captures...
In The Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle’s philosophical enquiry into virtue, character, and the good life, his challenge is to manage our emotional life with intelligence. Our passions, when well exerci...
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.
Except for the financially desperate, people do not work for money alone. What also fuels their passion for work is a larger sense of purpose or passion. Given the opportunity, people gravitate to wha...
Empathy, as we have seen, leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another’s perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences.
Emotional intelligence skills are synergistic with cognitive ones; top performers have both. The more complex the job, the more emotional intelligence matters—if only because a deficiency in these abi...
El liderazgo no tiene que ver con el control de los demás sino con el arte de persuadirles para colaborar en la construcción de un objetivo común.