CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

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

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

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.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.