Limbic structures generate feelings of pleasure and sexual desire—the emotions that feed sexual passion. But the addition of the neocortex and its connections to the limbic system allowed for the moth...
Leadership at its essence is about serving. But it’s not only people serving you. You’re serving them. We’re joined together to serve the customer. At Medtronic, we’re trying to serve the patient. We’...
Jupiter has bestowed far more passion than reason—you could calculate the ratio as 24 to one. He set up two raging tyrants in opposition to Reason’s solitary power: anger and lust. How far Reason can...
It seems no one is guaranteed a job anywhere anymore. These are troubled times for workers. The creeping sense that no one’s job is safe, even as the companies they work for are thriving, means the sp...
If you are a duffer at golf, say, and make the same mistakes every time you try a certain swing or putt, 10,000 hours of practicing that error will not improve your game. You’ll still be a duffer, alb...
Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings—anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness—is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, wh...
Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.
De todas las dimensiones de la inteligencia emocional, la empatía es la que se reconoce con mayor facilidad.
But amid the din and distraction of work life, poor listening has become epidemic.
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No birthday, concert, hangout session, or party can be enjoyed without taking the time to distance yourself from what you are doing to make sure that those in your digital world know instantly how muc...
El enfado es la más seductora de las emociones negativas porque el monólogo interno que lo alienta proporciona argumentos convincentes para justificar el hecho de poder descargarlo sobre alguien.
You see it in jazz musicians, who never rehearse exactly what they do, but just seem to know when to take center stage, when to fade into the background. When jazz artists were compared with classical...
Una organización centrada en su mundo interno puede funcionar muy bien, pero cuando no se adapta al mundo mayor en el que opera, su rendimiento puede acabar sirviendo a una estrategia fracasada.
Una de las características principales de la autoconciencia es un sentido del humor autocrítico.
Tightly focused attention gets fatigued—much like an overworked muscle—when we push to the point of cognitive exhaustion. The signs of mental fatigue, such as a drop in effectiveness and a rise in dis...
Though they are quick to put others down, unhealthy narcissists view themselves in absolutely positive terms.
Rumination can also make the depression stronger by creating conditions that are, well, more depressing.
Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychologist. He discovered that people who have greater activity in the left frontal lobe, compared to the right, are by temperament cheerful; they typical...
Podríamos decir que quienes se hallan a merced de sus impulsos –quienes carecen de autocontrol– adolecen de una deficiencia moral porque la capacidad de controlar los impulsos constituye el fundamento...