The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

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

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.