There Is Perhaps No Psychological Skill More

The Social Brain Is In Its Natural Habitat When We're Talking With Someone Face-to-face In Real Time.

Threats To Our Standing In The Eyes Of Others Are Remarkably Potent Biologically, Almost As Powerful As Those To Our Very Survival.

There Are Some Surprising Payoffs With Only A Few Minutes' Practice, Like Eliminating The Loss Of Concentration That Multitasking Usually Brings. Short Daily Mindfulness Practice In Beginners Also Improves Memory, To The Point That A Group Of Students Who Volunteered For A Study Got Significantly Better Scores On Their Graduate School Entrance Exams.

But The Rational Mind Usually Doesn't Decide What Emotions We "should" Have !

The Task Of Worrying Is To Come Up With Positive Solutions For Life's Perils By Anticipating Dangers Before They Arise. If We Are Preoccupied By Worries, We Have That Must Less Attention To Expend On Figuring Out The Answers. Our Worries Become Self-fulfilling Prophecies, Propelling Us Toward The Very Disaster They Predict.