Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing, imagining some terrible tragedy. Worries are almost always expressed in the mind's ear, not its eye - that is, in words, not images - a fact that has significance for controlling worry.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort