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.
Rapport demands joint attention—mutual focus. Our need to make an effort to have such human moments has never been greater, given the ocean of distractions we all navigate daily.
Quisiera imaginar que, algún día, la educación incluirá en su programa de estudios la enseñanza de habilidades tan esencialmente humanas como el autoconocimiento, el autocontrol, la empatía y el arte...
People with well-developed emotional skills are also more likely to be content and effective in their lives, mastering the habits of mind that foster their own productivity; people who cannot marshal...
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...
Nuestras emociones tienen una mente propia, una mente cuyas conclusiones pueden ser completamente distintas a las sostenidas por nuestra mente racional.
No child can avoid emotional pain while growing up, and likewise emotional toxicity seems to be a normal by-product of organizational life—people are fired, unfair policies come from headquarters, fru...
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...
Los sentimientos desempeñan un papel fundamental para navegar a través de la incesante corriente de las decisiones personales que la vida nos obliga a tomar.
Los entornos más relajados se hallan, en opinión de Stephen Kaplan, de la Universidad de Michigan, en la naturaleza, debido a lo que él denomina teoría de recuperación de la atención.
Lo que distingue a las estrellas de los demás no es el coeficiente intelectual académico, sino el emocional.
Leadership is not domination, but the art of persuading people to work toward a common goal.
Las intuiciones creativas florecen mejor cuando las personas tienen objetivos claros y libertad también en el modo de alcanzarlos. Y, lo más importante todavía, tienen suficiente tiempo libre para pen...
La capacidad emocional, pues, no constituye un dato inmutable puesto que, con el aprendizaje adecuado, puede modificarse.
Great spiritual teachers, like Buddha and Jesus, have touched their disciples' hearts by speaking in the language of emotion, teaching in parables, fables, and stories. Indeed, religious symbol and ri...
Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child. New
Don’t underestimate the value of practicing the guitar or keeping that promise to feed the guinea pig and clean its cage.
But the arbitrary cuts, edits, and other changes the studio bosses made before releasing that movie were a bitter lesson for my friend, who valued creative control of his work as paramount. When he we...