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

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

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

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.