When we focus on others, our world expands.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

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

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

The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.