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

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.

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

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.

Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.