American - Author | March 7, 1946 -
Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.
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True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
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A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
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Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
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If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
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In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
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The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
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Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.
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Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.
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As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.
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