For Better Or Worse, Intelligence Can Come

There Is Perhaps No Psychological Skill More Fundamental Than Resisting Impulse.

When I Say Manage Emotions, I Only Mean The Really Distressing, Incapacitating Emotions. Feeling Emotions Is What Makes Life Rich. You Need Your Passions.

The People We Get Along With, Trust, Feel Simpatico With, Are The Strongest Links In Our Networks

The Near Cousin Of Optimism Is Hope: Knowing The Steps Needed To Get To A Goal And Having The Energy To Pursue Those Steps. It Is A Primal Motivating Force, And Its Absence Is Paralyzing.

But Once You Are In That Field, Emotional Intelligence Emerges As A Much Stronger Predictor Of Who Will Be Most Successful, Because It Is How We Handle Ourselves In Our Relationships That Determines How Well We Do Once We Are In A Given Job.