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.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.
I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble
"Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead.