Daniel Goleman an Impulskontrolle

"I.Q.? You need to be smart enough to join the game. The rest is emotional intellegence."

"Brain - the elegant and primary machine for survival."

"It asks: what is the threat?"

"The amygdala answers: fight - flight - freeze"

"Impulsion = amygdala hijack."

wisdom of emotions

Self-mastery

Prioritization

right or wrong as gut-feelings

34:30: The extent to which your mind

is preoccupied by distressing emotions is going to shrink cognitive capacity and make

it harder for you to do the work at hand. On the other hand, you could say that the

ability to inhibit distressing emotions from the amygdala is an enabler of cognitive capacity 
because it leaves full attention available for what you're trying to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamic%E2%80%93pituitary%E2%80%93adrenal_axis

 39:00 So, the best place to
be for cortisol effectiveness is an emotional

place. 
It's a place that is determined by the emotional brain.


mirror neurons help to synchronize interactions nonverbally.
creating a feeling of connectedness.

42:00 Another thing that's very important they find is that this means there is an emotional
subtext to every human interaction. No matter what's going on explicitly, tacitly, we're
making each other feel a little worse or a little better, or a lot worse or a lot better

at this sign off level. 



42:40 And they found, interestingly,
those most effective leaders laughed three times more. In both, there was laughter three

times more in that interaction than the mediocre leaders.