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

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

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is "to move.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

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