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

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

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

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

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