Emotions Are Contagious. We've All Known It

Companies In The East Put A Lot More Emphasis On Human Relationships, While Those From The West Focus On The Product, The Bottom Line. Westerners Appear To Have More Of A Need For Achievement, While In The East There's More Need For Affiliation.

Ceos Are Hired For Their Intellect And Business Expertise - And Fired For A Lack Of Emotional Intelligence.

The Near Cousin Of Optimism Is Hope: Knowing The Steps Needed To Get To A Goal And Having The Energy To Pursue Those Steps. It Is A Primal Motivating Force, And Its Absence Is Paralyzing.

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.

For The High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge Of Flow 40 Percent Of The Hours They Spent At It. But For Low Achievers, Studying Produced Flow Only 16 Percent Of The Time; More Often That Not, It Yielded Anxiety, With The Demands Outreaching Their Abilities...the Low Achievers Found Pleasure And Flow In Socializing, Not In Studying.