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Our Brain Comes Hard-wired With An Urge To Play, One That Hurls Us Into Sociability. A Child's Play Both Demands And Creates Its Own Safe Space, One In Which She Can Confront Threats, Fears, And Dangers, But Always Come Through Whole. Play Offers A Child A Natural Way To Manage Feared Separations Or Abandonment, Rendering Them Instead Opportunities For Mastery And Self-discovery.

Comparing The Three Domains, I Found That For Jobs Of All Kinds, Emotional Competencies Were Twice As Prevalent Among Distinguishing Competencies As Were Technical Skills And Purely Cognitive Abilities Combined. In General The Higher A Position In An Organization, The More Ei Mattered: For Individuals In Leadership Positions, 85 Percent Of Their Competencies Were In The Ei Domain.

People's Emotions Are Rarely Put Into Words , Far More Often They Are Expressed Through Other Cues. The Key To Intuiting Another's Feelings Is In The Ability To Read Nonverbal Channels , Tone Of Voice , Gesture , Facial Expression And The Like

Feelings Are Self-justifying, With A Set Of Perceptions And "proofs" All Their Own.

Mindful Meditation Has Been Discovered To Foster The Ability To Inhibit Those Very Quick Emotional Impulses.