emotion

The emotional brain receives the signal first and can commandeer behaviour before the thinking brain has the facts.#amygdala-hijack

Self-regulation predicts later outcomes better than IQ does.#delayed-gratification-predicts

Most emotional signal is nonverbal, and reading it is a trainable perceptual skill rather than a fixed disposition.#empathy-is-readable-data

Naming an emotion while it is happening is the first competence — everything else is built on it.#self-awareness-is-the-base