Emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise -- and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Happy, calm children learn best.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy. They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.

There are a host of surprises among longer-term meditators, like a boost in the immune system from a day of practice, which is not seen in beginners, and a rapid recovery from stress or pain. At the Olympic level we find there is no anticipatory anxiety when the stress of pain is certain to come, and no lingering aftereffects -- unlike the stress reactions in ordinary folk.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and proofs all their own.

We're exposed and carry in our bodies multiple chemicals, and we have to understand how they interact. Both how they individually interact and the thousands of effects they can produce when they interact with the receptors that run our bodies.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections.