Los pensamientos obsesivos son la leña que alimenta el fuego de la ira, un fuego que sólo podrá extinguirse contemplando las cosas desde un punto de vista diferente
Los indicadores de la autorregulación emocional son, por consiguiente, fáciles de ver: tendencia a reflexionar y a meditar, comodidad ante la ambigüedad y el cambio, y también integridad, es decir, ca...
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. HORACE WALPOLE
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...
La mayor parte de las veces no podemos dictar qué emociones vamos a sentir, cuándo vamos a sentirlas ni con qué fuerza.
It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince
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...
Hope, in a technical sense, is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right. Snyder defines it with more specificity as believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish y...
En una empresa todo el mundo forma parte del sistema, de modo que las reacciones de los demás son el alma del conjunto: el intercambio de información permite a los individuos saber si el trabajo que h...
Emotional resilience comes down to how quickly we recover from upsets. People who are highly resilient—who bounce back right away—can have as much as thirty times more activation in the left prefronta...
El liderazgo no es sinónimo de dominación, sino el arte de convencer a la gente de que colabore para alcanzar un objetivo común.
El bombardeo continuo de correos electrónicos, escritos y facturas –la catástrofe completa de la vida– nos arroja a un estado cerebral antitético
Cualquiera puede enfadarse, eso es algo muy sencillo. Pero enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente,...
Cada vez es mayor la evidencia de que los pacientes deprimidos que se hallan aquejados de una enfermedad grave también deberían recibir tratamiento para su depresión.
Benjamin Franklin put it well: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
Authoritative leaders mobilize people toward a vision. Affiliative leaders create emotional bonds and harmony. Democratic leaders build consensus through participation. Pacesetting leaders expect exce...
Around 8 percent of American gamers between ages eight and eighteen seem to meet psychiatry’s diagnostic criteria for addiction; brain studies reveal changes in their neural reward system while they g...
Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nichom...
And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.