People Learn What They Want To Learn.

Leaders With Empathy Do More Than Sympathize With People Around Them: They Use Their Knowledge To Improve Their Companies In Subtle, But Important Ways.

Societies Can Be Sunk By The Weight Of Buried Ugliness.

The Book Is A Dialogue Between The Dalai Lama And A Group Of Scientists About How We Can Better Handle Our Destructive Emotions And How To Overcome Them.

The Task Of Worrying Is To Come Up With Positive Solutions For Life's Perils By Anticipating Dangers Before They Arise. If We Are Preoccupied By Worries, We Have That Must Less Attention To Expend On Figuring Out The Answers. Our Worries Become Self-fulfilling Prophecies, Propelling Us Toward The Very Disaster They Predict.

But Once You Are In That Field, Emotional Intelligence Emerges As A Much Stronger Predictor Of Who Will Be Most Successful, Because It Is How We Handle Ourselves In Our Relationships That Determines How Well We Do Once We Are In A Given Job.