There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short daily mindfulness practice in beginners also improves memory, to the point that a group of students who volunteered for a study got significantly better scores on their graduate school entrance exams.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

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

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

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