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

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

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

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.