Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.
Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.
Con eso se redefine la labor esencial del líder: ayudar a la gente a alcanzar la zona cerebral donde puede dar lo mejor de sí, y a permanecer en ella.
CI se ocupa sólo de una estrecha franja de habilidades lingüísticas y matemáticas, y que tener un elevado CI tal vez pueda predecir adecuadamente quién va a tener éxito en el aula o quién va a llegar...
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.
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...
Emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.
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.
Apunta: «Los ataques al carácter de alguien (llamarlo estúpido o incompetente) no sirven para nada. El otro se pone de inmediato a la defensiva y deja de ser receptivo a las recomendaciones que tenemo...
When we are in the grip of craving or fury, head-over-heals in love our recoiling in dread, it is the limbic system that has us in its grip.
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.
The dimension of time is a huge problem—if the pace of global warming were accelerated to a few years instead of over centuries, people would pay more attention. But it’s like the national debt: I’ll...
The antidote for mind wandering is meta-awareness, attention to attention itself, as in the ability to notice that you are not noticing what you should, and correcting your focus. Mindfulness makes th...
The Extraordinary Persons Project In fact, Ekman had been so moved personally—and intrigued scientifically—by his experiments with Öser that he announced at the meeting he was planning on pursuing a s...
Television, as the poet T. S. Eliot warned in 1963, when the then-new medium was spreading into homes, permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Ser consciente de uno mismo, en suma, es estar atento a los estados internos sin reaccionar ante ellos y sin juzgarlos.
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...