Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

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

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.