People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.

One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

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