Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.

One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.