The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.