Making Choices That Improve Things For All

Doggedness Depends On Emotional Traits - Enthusiasm And Persistence In The Face Of Setbacks - Above All Else.

Remember, Empathy Need Not Lead To Sympathetically Giving In To The Other Side’s Demands—knowing How Someone Feels Does Not Mean Agreeing With Them.

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.

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.

But The Rational Mind Usually Doesn't Decide What Emotions We "should" Have !