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DEDICATION
For the well-being of generations to come
 
CONTENTS
Dedication
1    The Subtle Faculty
Part I: The Anatomy of Attention
2    Basics
3    Attention Top and Bottom
4    The Value of a Mind Adrift
5    Finding Balance
Part II: Self-Awareness
6    The Inner Rudder
7    Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us
8    A Recipe for Self-Control
Part III: Reading Others
9    The Woman Who Knew Too Much
10    The Empathy Triad
11    Social Sensitivity
Part IV: The Bigger Context
12    Patterns, Systems, and Messes
13    System Blindness
14    Distant Threats
Part V: Smart Practice
15    The Myth of 10,000 Hours
16    Brains on Games
17    Breathing Buddies
Part VI: The Well-Focused Leader
18    How Leaders Direct Attention
19    The Leader’s Triple Focus
20    What Makes a Leader?
Part VII: The Big Picture
21    Leading for the Long Future
        Acknowledgments
        Resources
        Notes
        Index
        About the Author
        Also by Daniel Goleman
        Credits
        Copyright
        About the Publisher
        Footnotes
 
1
THE SUBTLE FACULTY
To watch John Berger, house detective, track the shoppers wandering the first floor of a department store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is to witness attention in action. In a nondescript black suit, white shirt, and red tie, walkie-talkie in hand, John moves perpetually, his focus always riveted on one or another shopper. Call him the eyes of the store.
It’s a daunting challenge. There are more than fifty shoppers on his floor at any one time, drifting from one jewelry counter to the next, perusing the Valentino scarves, sorting through the Prada pouches. As they browse the goods, John browses them.
John waltzes among the shoppers, a study in Brownian motion. For a few seconds he stands behind a purse counter, his eyes glued to a prospect, then flits to a vantage point by the door, only to glide to a corner where a perch allows him a circumspect look at a potentially suspicious trio.
While customers see only the merchandise, oblivious to John’s watchful eye, he scrutinizes them all.
There’s a saying in India, “When a pickpocket meets a saint, all he sees are the pockets.” In any crowd what John would see are the pickpockets. His gaze roams like a spotlight. I can imagine his face seeming to screw up into a giant ocular orb reminiscent of the one-eyed Cyclops. John is focus embodied.
What does he scan for? “It’s a way their eyes move, or a motion in their body” that tips him off to the intenti ............

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