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.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

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.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.