The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning–every teacher should know about it.
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
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.
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
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.
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.
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
Whenever we feel stressed out, that’s a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
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.