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Emotional Intelligence: Does it mean more than IQ?
Mario Peshev
July 27, 2024
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Transforming Adversity into Opportunity
Psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, on the power of resilience.
"Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge."
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Psychologist and author, Daniel Goleman, on the power of emotions.
"Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory."
Neuroendocrinologist, Robert M. Sapolsky, on the impact of stress.
"If you’re stressed like a normal mammal in an acute physical crisis, the stress response is lifesaving. But if instead you chronically activate the stress response for reasons of psychological stress, your health suffers."
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