Sami

“Women everywhere had higher scores in two of these categories—social responsibility and empathy—while men universally scored higher on stress tolerance.”
― Steven J. Stein, The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success

“Reality Testing—the ability to see things as they actually are, rather than the way you wish or fear they might be;”
― Steven J. Stein, The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success

“It embraces Emotional Self-Awareness—the ability to recognize how you're feeling and why you're feeling that way, and the impact your emotions have on the thoughts and actions of yourself and others; Self”
― Steven J. Stein, The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success

“Platonicity is what makes us think that we understand more than we actually do. But this does not happen everywhere. I am not saying that Platonic forms don’t exist. Models and constructions, these intellectual maps of reality, are not always wrong; they are wrong only in some specific applications. The difficulty is that a) you do not know beforehand (only after the fact) where the map will be wrong, and b) the mistakes can lead to severe consequences. These models are like potentially helpful medicines that carry random but very severe side effects.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable