There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
Daniel GolemanRead
Happy, calm children learn best
Interpretation
Children who are happy and calm are more effective learners.
This quote emphasizes the importance of emotional well-being in the learning process of children. When children feel happy and calm, they are in a better state of mind to absorb information, engage with their surroundings, and develop positive relationships, which ultimately enhances their educational experience and growth.
In practice
In a workshop for educators discussing the significance of emotional intelligence in classrooms.
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
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.
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.
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language
Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn - and only from us.
Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
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