The Emotionally Intelligent Office Quotes

“Too many people throw themselves at the same area because they can’t think of anything more innovative to do than to start yet another airline, mobile phone company or supermarket chain, to the distress of all participants. By contrast, healthy profits are a reward for understanding and mastering a given human need ahead of others.”
― The School of Life, The Emotionally Intelligent Office: 20 Key Emotional Skills for the Workplace

“The opposite of empathy isn’t just thinking of yourself; it is thinking of yourself in limited ways.”
― The School of Life, The Emotionally Intelligent Office: 20 Key Emotional Skills for the Workplace

“Daydreaming is a strategic rebellion against the excessive demands of immediate (but ultimately insignificant) pressures in favour of the diffuse, but very serious and effective, search for the wisdom of the unexplored deep self.”
― The School of Life, The Emotionally Intelligent Office: 20 Key Emotional Skills for the Workplace

“the real choice is almost never between error and happiness, but between varieties of suffering.”
― The School of Life, The Emotionally Intelligent Office: 20 Key Emotional Skills for the Workplace

“Our greatest furies spring from events that violate our sense of the ground rules of existence.”
― The School of Life, The Emotionally Intelligent Office: 20 Key Emotional Skills for the Workplace

“We interpret reality with a bias that twists the available evidence according to narratives that feel familiar but may be untrue and unhelpful to who and what is actually before us. Psychoanalysis calls this imposition of a past assumption onto present reality a transference.”
― The School of Life, The Emotionally Intelligent Office: 20 Key Emotional Skills for the Workplace