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

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

Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny.

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.