Daniel Goleman

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. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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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. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#carry #children #develop #each #earliest

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

— Daniel Goleman

#brain #emotional #event #more #quickly

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

— Daniel Goleman

#attend #doing #meditation #moment #you

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. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#build #capacity #hover #internal #needed

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. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#any #choices #compassion #go #improve

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

#being #benefits #better #between #brain

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

— Daniel Goleman

#completely #empowered #example #facilitate #for example

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#comfortable #comfortable talking #feelings #need #talking

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. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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