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Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence , we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and the... read more
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- Gardner
- Elliot
- Martin
- Rahman
- Roger
- Len
- Tucker
- Gary
- Davidson
- Ledoux
- Judy
- Purdy
- Jason
- Leslie
- Vargo
- Tice
- Biondi
- Cecil
- Zillmann
- Stern
- Tom
- Gottman
- Mark
- Denny
- Lamont
- Seligman
- Robles
- Fred
- Pamela
- Kovacs
- Damasio
- Melanie
- Ben
- Snyder
- Terry
- Jessica
- Williams
- Ader
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“One reason they are so poor at this basic life skill, of course, is that as a society we have not bothered to make sure every child is taught the essentials of handling anger or resolving conflicts positively -- nor have we bothered to teach empathy, impulse control, or any of the other fundamentals of emotional competence. By leaving the emotional lessons chlidren learn to chance, we risk largely wasting the window of opportunity presented by the slow maturation of the brain to help children cultivate a healthy emotional repertoire.”
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“If families no longer function effectively to put all our children on a firm footing for life, what are we to do?”
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uno de los remedios más poderosos para acabar con el enfado consiste en volver a encuadrar la situación en un marco más positivo.
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Las personas que han desarrollado adecuadamente las habilidades emocionales suelen sentirse más satisfechas, son más eficaces y más capaces de dominar los hábitos mentales que determinan la productividad.
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inteligencia emocional, características como la capacidad de motivarnos a nosotros mismos, de perseverar en el empeño a pesar de las posibles frustraciones, de controlar los impulsos, de diferir las gratificaciones, de regular nuestros propios estados de ánimo, de evitar que la angustia interfiera con nuestras facultades racionales y, por último –pero no, por ello, menos importante–, la capacidad de empatizar y confiar en los demás.
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la inteligencia académica no ofrece la menor preparación para la multitud de dificultades –o de oportunidades– a la que deberemos enfrentarnos a lo largo de nuestra vida.
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Cualquiera puede enfadarse, eso es algo muy sencillo. Pero enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente, no resulta tan sencillo.
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Es por ello por lo que una vida sin amígdala es una vida despojada de todo significado personal.
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La capacidad de motivarse uno mismo.
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La enseñanza de Sócrates «conócete a ti mismo» –darse cuenta de los propios sentimientos en el mismo momento en que éstos tienen lugar– constituye la piedra angular de la inteligencia emocional.
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En cierto modo, tenemos dos cerebros y dos clases diferentes de inteligencia: la inteligencia racional y la inteligencia emocional, y nuestro funcionamiento en la vida está determinado por ambos.
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el funcionamiento de la amígdala y su interrelación con el neocórtex constituyen el núcleo mismo de la inteligencia emocional.
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First Sentence edit
"Ponder the last moments of Gary and Mary Jane Chauncey, a couple completely devoted to their eleven-year-old daughter Andrea, who was confined to a wheelchair by cerebral palsy."
Table of Contents edit
1. What are emotions for?
2. Anatomy of emotional hijacking
3. When smart is dumb
4. Know Thyself
5. Passion's slaves
6. The master apitude
7. The roots of empathy
8. The social arts
9. Intimate enemies
10. Managing with heart
11. Mind and medicine
12. The family cruciable
13. Trauma and emotional relearning
14. Temperament is not destiny
15. The cost of emotional illiteracy
16. Schooling the emotions
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Daniel Goleman books. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Daniel Goleman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 055309503X
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 055309503X
Page Count: 368
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- Dewey: 152.4
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Behavioral Sciences › Cognitive Psychology
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Behavioral Sciences › Cognitive Science
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › By Topic › Intelligence
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › By Topic › Emotions
- Books › Science › Behavioral Sciences › Cognitive Psychology
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Success
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Mental Health › Emotions
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Personal Transformation
- Books › Parenting & Families › Parenting
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