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.
Daniel GolemanI don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
Daniel GolemanIf your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel GolemanWe need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.
Daniel GolemanPeople learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.
Daniel Goleman