When we focus on others, our world expands.

In a sense we have two brains, two minds, and two different kinds of intelligence: rational and emotional.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

Each emotion offers a distinctive readiness to act; each points us in a direction that has worked well to handle the recurring challenges of human life.

True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise- and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.