Attention Is A Little-noticed And Underrated Mental

Leaders With Empathy Do More Than Sympathize With People Around Them: They Use Their Knowledge To Improve Their Companies In Subtle, But Important Ways.

The Emotional Brain Is Highly Attuned To Symbolic Meanings And To The Mode Freud Called The 'primary Process' - The Messages Of Metaphor, Story, Myth, The Arts.

Evolutionary Theory Holds That Our Ability To Sense When We Should Be Suspicious Has Been Every Bit As Essential For Human Survival As Our Capacity For Trust And Cooperation.

Cognitive Skills Such As Big-picture Thinking And Long-term Vision Were Particularly Important. But When I Calculated The Ratio Of Technical Skills, Iq, And Emotional Intelligence As Ingredients Of Excellent Performance, Emotional Intelligence Proved To Be Twice As Important As The Others For Jobs At All Levels.

Life Without Passion Would Be A Dull Wasteland Of Neutrality, Cut Off And Isolated From The Richness Of Life Itself.