A lot of people have enriched my life from their books, trainings and workshops. In this series, I am going to write about 25 of them that have showed me how to think, and how to live a better life. I write about Daniel Goleman in this post. Daniel’s book, Emotional Intelligence, gave me a very po


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26 Aug
My Fully Loaded Car – Rational Emotions or Emotional Rationality?

Posted by Deven Pravin Shah On August - 26 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Let me tell you a true story about my very first car. This story is me and my mindset sixteen years ago. It makes me laugh about it now, but it meant so much for me at the time. I was walking down the street in Kearny, NJ. It was a beautiful fall evening. I saw a car from the distance. How amaz


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