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The Emotional Brain Responds To An Event More Quickly Than The Thinking Brain.

Motivation Aside, If People Get Better At These Life Skills, Everyone Benefits: The Brain Doesn't Distinguish Between Being A More Empathic Manager And A More Empathic Father.

Cognitive Skills Such As Big-picture Thinking And Long-term Vision Were Particularly Important. But When I Calculated The Ratio Of Technical Skills, Iq, And Emotional Intelligence As Ingredients Of Excellent Performance, Emotional Intelligence Proved To Be Twice As Important As The Others For Jobs At All Levels.

When It Comes To Exploring The Mind In The Framework Of Cognitive Neuroscience, The Maximal Yield Of Data Comes From Integrating What A Person Experiences - The First Person - With What The Measurements Show - The Third Person.

All The Classical Meditation Traditions, In One Way Or Another, Stress Nonattachment To The Self As A Goal Of Practice. Oddly, This Dimension Is Largely Ignored In Scientific Research, Which Tends To Focus On Health And Other Such Benefits. I Suppose The Difference Has To Do With The Contrast In Views Of The Self From The Spiritual And Scientific Perspectives. Scientists Value The Self; Spiritual Traditions Have Another Perspective.