The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

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

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.