There are two major streams of self-awareness: me, which builds narratives about our past and future; and I, which brings us into the immediate present. The me, as we’ve seen, links together what we e...
Steve Jobs gave a heartfelt talk to a graduating class at Stanford University. His advice: Don’t let the voice of others’ opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to f...
People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for failure, ascribing it to some lasting cha...
Moral sentiments derive from empathy, and moral reflections take thinking and focus. One cost of the frenetic stream of distractions we face today, some fear, is an erosion of empathy and compassion.1...
La gente tiende a ser muy eficiente en la gestión de las relaciones cuando logra comprender y controlar sus emociones y demostrar empatía por las de los demás.
Experience, particularly in childhood, sculpts the brain. The
Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child. New
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise—and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we should have !
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What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development.
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.
The key to resilience is trying really hard, then stopping, recovering, and then trying again.
Rumination can also make the depression stronger by creating conditions that are, well, more depressing.
Our memories are in part reconstructions. Whenever we retrieve a memory, the brain rewrites it a bit, updating the past according to our present concerns and understanding. At the cellular level, LeDo...
Muchos grandes encestadores de baloncesto, como Hank Aaron, por ejemplo, visionan una y otra vez vídeos de los pívots del equipo al que están a punto de enfrentarse para descubrir, en el juego de sus...
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...
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...
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...
Don’t underestimate the value of practicing the guitar or keeping that promise to feed the guinea pig and clean its cage.