The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

Compassion begins with attention.

The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.

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

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

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

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.