Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

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

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.