Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

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

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.