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.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

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

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.

Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

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

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.