Happy, Calm Children Learn Best

People Who Are Optimistic See A Failure As Due To Something That Can Be Changed So That They Can Succeed Next Time Around, While Pessimists Take The Blame For The Failure, Ascribing It To Some Characteristic They Are Helpless To Change.

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.

There Is A Newly Coined Word In The English Language For The Moment When The Person We're With Whips Out Their Blackberry Or Answers That Cell Phone, And All Of A Sudden We Don't Exist. The Word Is 'pizzled': It's A Combination Of Puzzled And Pissed Off.

What Really Matters For Success, Character, Happiness And Life Long Achievements Is A Definite Set Of Emotional Skills - Your Eq - Not Just Purely Cognitive Abilities That Are Measured By Conventional Iq Tests.

Whenever We Feel Stressed Out, That's A Signal That Our Brain Is Pumping Out Stress Hormones. If Sustained Over Months And Years, Those Hormones Can Ruin Our Health And Make Us A Nervous Wreck.