What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

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

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

people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like

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

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.