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.

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

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

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.

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.