Simply Paying Attention Allows Us To Build

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

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.

Simple Inattention Kills Empathy, Let Alone Compassion. So The First Step In Compassion Is To Notice The Other's Need. It All Begins With The Simple Act Of Attention.

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.

Daydreaming Defeats Practice; Those Of Us Who Browse Tv While Working Out Will Never Reach The Top Ranks. Paying Full Attention Seems To Boost The Mind's Processing Speed, Strengthen Synaptic Connections, And Expand Or Create Neural Networks For What We Are Practicing.