Author: Daniel Goleman

Quotes

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

- Daniel Goleman

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

- Daniel Goleman

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

- Daniel Goleman

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

- Daniel Goleman

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

- Daniel Goleman

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

- Daniel Goleman

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.

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.

- Daniel Goleman

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

- Daniel Goleman

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