959: Daniel Goleman on How to Master Your Attention, Stop Negativity, and Work Optimally
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Famed emotional intelligence researcher Daniel Goleman shares tools for more productive and fulfilling work days.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The five-minute technique for mastering your attention
2) The technique Special Forces use to stay cool and calm
3) How to quiet the negative voice inside your head
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— ABOUT DANIEL —
Psychologist and author of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends, leads, and conducts business. A frequent speaker on campuses and to businesses of all kinds and sizes, he has worked with organizations around the globe, examining the way social and emotional competencies impact the bottom-line.
Ranked one of the 10 most influential business thinkers by the Wall Street Journal, Goleman’s articles in the Harvard Business Review are among the most frequently requested reprints. He has won many awards, including the HBR McKinsey Award for best article of the year. Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded him its Centennial Medallion. Apart from his writing on emotional intelligence, Goleman has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social and emotional learning, eco-literacy and the ecological crisis.
His latest book, Optimal, shows why emotional intelligence can help each of us have rewarding and productive days. Daniel Goleman’s online Emotional Intelligence Program found at,danielgolemanemotionalintelligence.com, offers anyone a deep understanding of the competencies of self-awareness, self-management, empathy and social skill.
• Book: "Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day"
• Book: "Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body"
• Website: DanielGoleman.info
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: "Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life" by Martin Seligman
• Book: "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
• Prayer: Reinhold Niebuhr's “Serenity Prayer”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | And it's our inner world bottom line that makes the difference for how we feel at the end of the day. |
| 0:12.0 | We go wherever our mind does but then you realize |
| 0:16.1 | you don't have to do that. You can start to control your mind. Paying full attention to what you're doing now as a doorway into the optimal state and |
| 0:26.7 | the nice thing about attention is it's a muscle it's a muscle of the mind. |
| 0:30.0 | That's Dr. Daniel Goldman. He popularized the term emotional intelligence in 1995 and since then he's received numerous awards and accolades for his work. |
| 0:40.0 | He's been recognized as one of the 10 most influential thinkers by the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:44.2 | and today he's sharing some wisdom from his latest book, Optimal, How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence |
| 0:50.0 | Every Day. So you'll learn one, the five minute technique for mastering your attention. |
| 0:54.4 | Two, what special forces use to say cool and calm and three, |
| 0:58.0 | how to quiet the negative voice inside your head. I'm Pete McKitis. This is how to be awesome at your job and now here's Dan. |
| 1:04.0 | Dan welcome. Thank you Pete. Pleasure to be here. I'm excited to talk about |
| 1:09.2 | some insights from your book optimal how to sustain personal and organizational excellence every day. |
| 1:14.6 | But first I think when people hear and see your name, they think, oh, emotional intelligence! |
| 1:20.6 | So you've been pursuing this stuff for, well how long has it been? |
| 1:24.0 | The first book was in 95. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, there you go. |
| 1:28.0 | We were probably in nursery school, I would guess, I don't know. |
| 1:32.0 | 95, I was 12 years old 12 years old there you go so I've been doing a long time and it's really |
| 1:39.7 | interesting the research has gotten better that's why I did this book. And when I did the first book, it was really kind of hypothetical anecdotal. Now I wrote optimal with |
| 1:52.0 | Carrie Chernus, who was my fellow co-director of a |
| 1:56.1 | consortium for research on emotional intelligence, and which is basically |
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