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.
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...
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...
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
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.
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,...
–darse cuenta de los propios sentimientos en el mismo momento en que éstos tienen lugar– constituye
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...
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
There is much to be said for the constructive contribution to creative and spiritual life; suffering can temper the soul.
Indeed, laughter may be the shortest distance between two brains, an unstoppable infectious spread that builds an instant social bond.
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...
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...
Perished.1 Andrea’s story, of parents whose last heroic act is to ensure their child’s survival, captures a moment of almost mythic courage. Without doubt such incidents of parental sacrifice for thei...
Stress makes people stupid. On
Exploration means we disengage from a current focus to search for new possibilities, and allows flexibility, discovery,
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...
One rule of thumb used in communications research is that 90 percent or more of an emotional message is nonverbal.
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort