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

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks

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.

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.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.