Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

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

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.