The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant, Albert Einstein once said. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
The creative mind is, by its very nature, a bit unruly. There is a natural tension between orderly self-control and the innovative urge. It's not that people who are creative are out-of-control emotio...
The classical literature in psychology describes the relationship between anxiety and performance, including mental performance, in terms of an upside-down U. At the peak of the inverted U is the opti...
Social rejection—or fearing it—is one of the most common causes of anxiety. Feelings of inclusion depend not so much on having frequent social contacts or numerous relationships as on how accepted 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...
Los niños de hoy en día crecen en una nueva realidad, una realidad en la que están muy desconectados de sus semejantes y mucho más conectados que nunca, por el contrario, con las máquinas, una situaci...
La mente del lector suele divagar entre el 20 y 40% del tiempo que dedica a la lectura. No es sorprendente que esto tenga, para los estudiantes, un coste muy elevado, porque la comprensión es inversam...
In the brain’s architecture, the amygdala is poised something like an alarm company where operators stand ready to send out emergency calls to the fire department, police, and a neighbor whenever a ho...
In a complex world where almost everyone has access to the same information, new value arises from the original synthesis, from putting ideas together in novel ways, and from smart questions that open...
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 leaders to get results they need all three kinds of focus. Inner focus attunes us to our intuitions, guiding values, and better decisions. Other focus smooths our connections to the people in our...
Existe una clara evidencia de que las personas emocionalmente desarrolladas, es decir, las personas que gobiernan adecuadamente sus sentimientos, y asimismo saben interpretar y relacionarse efectivame...
Durante los primeros años de esta década, el número de mensajes de texto mensuales por adolescente era, por término medio, de 3.417, el doble exacto que unos pocos años antes, al tiempo que caía en pi...
But these most visible leadership abilities build not just on empathy, but also on managing ourselves and sensing how what we do affects others.
As poet Charles Bukowski put it, It's not the big things that send us to the madhouse, not the loss of a love, but the shoelace that breaks when there's no time left.
As Freud observed, Mortals can keep no secret. If their lips are silent, they gossip with their fingertips; betrayal forces its way through every pore.
A mente intuitiva é um dom sagrado e a mente racional, um servo fiel, disse um dia Albert Einstein. Criamos uma sociedade que honra o servo e se esqueceu do dom.12
«las personas parecen concentrarse mejor cuando se les pide algo más que lo corriente, en cuyo caso son capaces de ir más allá de lo normal. Si la demanda es muy inferior a su capacidad, la persona se...
The difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.
La inteligencia emocional destaca especialmente sobre el CI en aquellos dominios blandos en los que la relevancia del intelecto para el éxito es relativamente menor, es decir, en aquellos dominios en...