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

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.

What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.