Enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente, no resulta tan sencillo. Aristóteles, Ética a Nicómaco.
El neocórtex puede aprender a inhibir el funcionamiento de la amígdala.
El descontrol emocional obstaculiza la labor del intelecto
Alteran la función neuroendocrina y provocan desequilibrios de los sistemas inmunitario y nervioso, de modo que somos más propensos a sufrir enfermedades y nos cuesta pensar con claridad. El ritmo cir...
When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.
Whatever a student hears in class or reads in a book travels these pathways as he masters yet another iota of understanding. Indeed, everything that happens to us in life, all the details that we will...
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...
We typically avoid situations or fields in which we fear we might fail; even if we actually have the abilities it takes to succeed at a job, if we lack the belief that we can handle its challenges, we...
Martin Luther King Jr. observed that those who failed to offer their aid asked themselves the question: If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But the Good Samaritan reversed the question...
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. HORACE WALPOLE
Good work involves the intertwining of three features: excellence, engagement, and ethics. Good work is technically excellent work—people know what they’re doing. It’s personally engaging and meaningf...
For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when the emotions hold sway.
Choices made in keeping with this inner rudder, on the other hand, are energizing. They not only feel right but maximize the attention and energy available for pursuing them.
Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires.14
Benjamin Franklin put it well: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one. There
As Marcus Aurelius said millennia ago, pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Add the sounds of silence to the list of emotional risks to health—and close emotional ties to the list of protective factors. Studies done over two decades involving more than thirty-seven thousand p...
A child's readiness for school depends on the most basic of all knowledge, how to learn. The report lists the seven key ingredients of this crucial capacity—all related to emotional intelligence:6 1....
The ability to monitor feelings from moment to moment is crucial to psychological insight and self-understanding. An
Some studies have found that pessimists smoke and drink more, and exercise less, than optimists, and are generally much more careless about their health