287 Quotes by Daniel Goleman

The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.

In many or most moments these minds are exquisitely coordinated; feelings are essential to thought, thought to feeling. But when passions surge the balance tips: it is the emotional mind that captures the upper hand, swamping the rational mind.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and “proofs” all their own.

Experience, particularly in childhood, sculpts the brain. The.

The hippocampus is crucial in recognizing a face as that of your cousin. But it is the amygdala that adds you don’t really like her.

If there is a remedy, I feel it must lie in how we prepare our young for life.

Hope, in a technical sense, is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right. Snyder defines it with more specificity as “believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be.” People.

1. Knowing one’s emotions. Self-awareness – recognizing a feeling as it happens – is the keystone of emotional intelligence. As.

In short, out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.