You do not just wake up and become the butterfly. Growth is a process.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things, he is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
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.
Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike.
A view of human nature that ignores the power of emotions is sadly shortsighted.
Out of control emotions make smart people stupid.
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
In every real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.