When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

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

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

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.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.