“ Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. ”
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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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“ Self. absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection – or compassionate action. ”
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“ In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels ”
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“ There is much to be said for the constructive contribution to creative and spiritual life; suffering can temper the soul. ”
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“ There is much to be said for the constructive contribution of suffering to creative and spiritual life; suffering can temper the soul. ”
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“ In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels ”
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“ The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learningevery teacher should know about it. ”
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“ The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learningevery teacher should know about it. ”
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“ The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learningevery teacher should know about it. ”
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“ The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learningevery teacher should know about it. ”
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“ There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers — wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, or CEO. ”
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“ Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. ”
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“ Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. ”
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“ Self-awareness — recognizing a feeling as it happens — is the keystone of emotional intelligence… the ability to monitor feelings from moment to moment is crucial to psychological insight and understanding… People with greater certainty about their feelings are better pilots of their lives, having a surer sense of how they really feel about personal decisions… ”
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“ The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come… ”
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“ The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict. ”
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“ The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict. ”
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“ There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers — wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, or CEO. ”
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“ For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge to flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities. ”
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“ Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny. ”
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“ Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny. ”
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“ What factors are at play, for example, when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? I would argue that the difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself. ”
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“ Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny. ”
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“ For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge to flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities. ”
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“ What factors are at play, for example, when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? I would argue that the difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself. ”
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“ Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny. ”
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