The Social Brain Is In

The Emotional Brain Responds To An Event More Quickly Than The Thinking Brain.

For The High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge Of Flow 40 Percent Of The Hours They Spent At It. But For Low Achievers, Studying Produced Flow Only 16 Percent Of The Time; More Often That Not, It Yielded Anxiety, With The Demands Outreaching Their Abilities...the Low Achievers Found Pleasure And Flow In Socializing, Not In Studying.

....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.

True Compassion Means Not Only Feeling Another's Pain But Also Being Moved To Help Relieve It.

There Is Perhaps No Psychological Skill More Fundamental Than Resisting Impulse.