There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

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

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."