Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

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.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.