Emotional inteligence
PART ONETHE EMOTIONAL BRAIN
1What Are Emotions For?It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what isessential is invisible to the eye.ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY,The Little PrincePonder the last moments of Gary and Mary Jane Chauncey,a couple completely devoted to their eleven-yearolddaughter Andrea, who was confined to a wheelchairby cerebral palsy. The Chauncey family were passengerson an Amtrak train that crashed into a river after abarge hit and weakened a railroad bridge in Louisiana'sbayou country. Thinking first of their daughter, thecouple tried their best to save Andrea as water rushedinto the sinking train; somehow they managed to pushAndrea through a window to rescuers. Then, as the carsank beneath the water, they perished. 1Andrea's story, of parents whose last heroic act is toensure their child's survival, captures a moment of almostmythic courage. Without doubt such incidents ofparental sacrifice for their progeny have been repeatedcountless times in human history and prehistory, andcountless more in the larger course of evolution of our
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PART ONE
THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN
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