When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

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

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.