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Daniel Goleman is an American psychologist and author, renowned for his contributions to the field of emotional intelligence (EQ). His book 'Emotional Intelligence' became an international bestseller and propelled the importance of emotional intelligence in education, the workplace, and personal development.

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“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”

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Author:Daniel Goleman

“There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.”

Mind Different Body Brain Emotional Empathy Zero Controlled Correlation

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“Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.”

People Ifs Motivational Motivation Father Brain Skills Benefits Managers Get Better Life Skills

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.”

Should Shows Attention Brain Study Focus Stronger Chosen Pay Attention Workout Refocus

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“Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.”

Ifs Feels Years Brain Months Stress Nervous Ruins Signals Stressed Wrecks Hormones Stressed Out

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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.”

Brain Destiny Emotional Involved Series Determine Heritage Temperament

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.”

Real Faces Social Natural Brain Talking Emotional Face To Face Habitat Natural Habitats

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“We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections”

Knows Attention Brain Focus Information Connections Focused Maps Focused Attention

Book:Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Source: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.”

Humans Mean Growth Brain Childhood Birth Shapes Intense Human Brain

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.”

“The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.”

Art Stories Process Brain Emotional Messages Metaphor Myth Primaries Symbolic Symbolic Meaning

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.”

Men Looks Eye Pleasure Brain Attractive Chemicals Elsewhere Dopamine Social Intelligence

Author:Daniel Goleman