Daniel Goleman

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

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others. ”

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding. ”

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. ”

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain. ”

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. ”