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

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities...The low achievers found pleasure and flow in socializing, not in studying.

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

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.