Focus
by Daniel Goleman · first published 2013
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For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what's new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset that matters enormously for how we navigate life. Goleman boils down attention research into a three parts: inner, other, and outer focus. Goleman shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, as demonstrated by rich case studies from fields as diverse as com
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I've been listening to the audiobook "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence" by Daniel Goleman, and in one of the chapters, he brought up this experiment, along with many others (I think there was an Australian experiment that followed about 16,000…
on “40 Yr Stanford Study Found People with Delayed Gratification More Likely Succeed” ↗> were too lazy This is well established in divulgation: I'd say, Daniel Goleman, Focus (2013). Emotional Intelligence: "It's not the dry smarts of IQ, it's the smarts in understanding others". Focus: "It's not the smarts, it's the grit". (...to determine/predict success.)
on “Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?” ↗Then Daniel Goleman arrived and popularized the notion of a number of other qualities as superior predictors ("Emotional Intelligence", "Focus"¹, grit...) [¹Capitalized as they are also book titles]
on “Americans’ IQ scores are lower in some areas, higher in one” ↗