Daniel Goleman Quotes

• In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.

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• But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists – far greater interest than ever before.

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• But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

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• However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

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• I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don’t do only that. You also need to train your mind.

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• If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed – at will and voluntarily.

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• If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

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• If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

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• 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.

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• My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

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

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• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

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• The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

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• The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

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

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• The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

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• Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

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

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• When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

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• When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences – the first person – with what the measurements show – the third person.

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Daniel Goleman (34)

Birth:	7th March, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Psychologist

About

Daniel Jay Goleman was born in Stockton, California. He is an American author, psychologist, and science journalist. He is the author of more than 10 books on psychology, education, science, ecological crisis, and leadership. He received a scholarship from the Ford Foundation to attend Harvard University where he received his PhD studying under David C. McClelland. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He authored the internationally best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence, that spent more than one-and-a-half years on The New York Times Best Seller list. Goleman's most recent best-seller is Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. Goleman has received many awards for his writing, including a Career Achievement award for journalism from the American Psychological Association.

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