Great arti­cle in the New York Times on Obama’s emo­tional self-regulation abil­i­ties:
The Cool Fac­tor: Never Let Them See You Sweat

- “We even ele­vate such equi­lib­rium to the super­hu­man: calm, as applied to No Drama Obama, often comes linked to the mod­i­fier “preternatural.”

- “But the calm tem­pera­ment is not so super­hu­man, nor is it entirely the gift of the cho­sen few. It can be cul­ti­vated, even as the world cleaves around us.”

- “So how do we get there with­out a steady diet of beta block­ers and Xanax? Calm, per se, doesn’t appear in the tax­on­omy of those who study per­son­al­ity and temperament.”

As the arti­cle later dis­closes, this abil­ity is often called “emo­tional self-regulation” by cog­ni­tive sci­en­tists, and its devel­op­ment can assisted with tools such as med­i­ta­tion, cog­ni­tive ther­apy and biofeedback.

Per­haps one day this will be part of everybody’s school cur­ricu­lum and lead­er­ship programs?

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