Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.
If there is a remedy, I feel it must lie in how we prepare our young for life.
Shapes those feelings.
We have two brains, two minds—and two different kinds of intelligence: rational and emotional. How we do in life is determined by both—it is not just IQ, but emotional intelligence that matters. Indee...
Interpersonal intelligence is the ability to understand other people: what motivates them, how they work, how to work cooperatively with them. Successful salespeople, politicians, teachers, clinicians...
THE SEAT OF ALL PASSION
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
Ética para un nuevo milenio. Si
La ansiedad y la irritabilidad crónicas vuelven a las personas más susceptibles a la acción de un amplio abanico de enfermedades, y aunque la depresión no constituya la causa directa de la enfermedad,...
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
–darse cuenta de los propios sentimientos en el mismo momento en que éstos tienen lugar– constituye
Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.
The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the occasional streak of meanness, but torrents of bad news throughout history have contradicted that cl...
Indeed, laughter may be the shortest distance between two brains, an unstoppable infectious spread that builds an instant social bond.
Exploration means we disengage from a current focus to search for new possibilities, and allows flexibility, discovery,
Eso supone, por ejemplo, que, en el caso de una discusión, la persona agraviada debería alejarse durante un tiempo de la persona causante del enojo y frenar la escalada de pensamientos hostiles tratan...
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission a...
The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom lin...
Power dynamic operates in emotional contagion, determining which person’s brain will more forcefully draw the other into its emotional orbit. Mirror neurons are leadership tools: Emotions flow with sp...