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I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

~Daniel Goleman

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When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

~Daniel Goleman

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As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

~Daniel Goleman

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Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

~Daniel Goleman

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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.

~Daniel Goleman

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While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

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However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

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But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

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When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

~Daniel Goleman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 7th, 1946

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