Daniel Goleman
22 thoughts in this book draw on Daniel Goleman.
Books & sources
- Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organization aExcellence Every Day · 22 thoughts
The thoughts
- As Epictetus, a Greek philosopher, put it, it's not…
- Emotional empathy, nested primarily in the brain's emotional circuitry…
- If you're just nice then you do whatever keeps…
- Our very ability to place our attention where we…
- Religion aside, such caring has come into the scientific…
- Seeing a given group as "other"-creating a divide-inhibits empathy
- The Influence competence requires that we be seen as…
- We can't control what emotions come to us, how…
- What David calls "emotional agility" looks a lot like…
- a consultant who had been working with a team…
- Another useful suggestion
- Anxiety and peak performance, brain science shows, are recipro-cally…
- Focus-paying attention where and when we want to-has endless…
- For this the program uses the Emotional and Social…
- He called it "learned helplessness
- That research team at Harvard investigating good workdays discovered…
- The brain stores our life wisdom the sum total…
- The final step is to practice the learned behaviors…
- The other kind of competency is called a distinguishing…
- Then think of that sense of effortlessness
- They are "smart" because the person taking the risk…
- What McClelland meant was this