The subcortical circuits that know such gut truths before we have words for them include the amygdala and the insula. A scholarly review of gut intuitions concludes that using feelings as information...
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...
The debris that buried Steve saved his life as the plane’s fuselage exploded,
Según Damasio, para tomar una buena decisión tenemos que aplicar sentimientos a los pensamientos,
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...
Others point to data showing that even as toddlers, 40 percent of American two-year-olds watch TV for at least three hours a day—hours they are not interacting with people who can help them learn to g...
No podemos controlar lo que vamos a sentir, pero sí decidir qué hacemos a continuación.
Lo que distingue a las estrellas de los demás no es el coeficiente intelectual académico, sino el emocional.
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...
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
Just seeing someone express an emotion can evoke that mood, whether you realize you mimic the facial expression or not. This happens to us all the time—there’s a dance, a synchrony, a transmission of...
In any interaction the more high-power person tends to focus his or her gaze on the other person less than others, and is more likely to interrupt and to monopolize the conversation—all signifying a l...
Great spiritual teachers, like Buddha and Jesus, have touched their disciples' hearts by speaking in the language of emotion, teaching in parables, fables, and stories. Indeed, religious symbol and ri...
Forthrightness is the brain’s default response: our neural wiring transmits our every minor mood onto the muscles of our face, making our feelings instantly visible. The display of emotion is automati...
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...
Estos avances hacia la apertura resultan muy alentadores porque sugieren que, en cierto modo, hasta las mismas pautas emocionales innatas pueden cambiar.