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• While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

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• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

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• Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

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• Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

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• Emotional ‘literacy’ implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children’s learning and as individual mentors.

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• Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, ‘My detergent doesn’t have the harsh chemicals others do.’ The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

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• Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

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• A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt ‘Don’t bother me – I’ve got important work to do.’

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• There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy… They’re controlled by different parts of the brain.

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• The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company’s bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

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• 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.

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• The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I’d say that compassion begins with attention.

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• Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection — or compassionate action.

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• Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

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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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