Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman
Daniel Golemanis an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half, and a best-seller in many countries, in print worldwide in 40 languages. Apart from his books on emotional intelligence, Goleman has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social and emotional learning, ecoliteracy and the ecological crisis,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth7 March 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.
Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.
We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.
Compassion begins with attention.
The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.
Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
Happy, calm children learn best