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精读《SearchInsideYourself》（硅谷最受欢迎的情商课）Emotional Intelligence 本书关于通过宣传禅宗冥想的方法和优势，来提高情绪智力（国内误作“情商”）（这点还要继续看文章解释EQ和EI的区别），从而提高每个人的Kindness，通过人们相互传递kindness，goodness来达到世界和平。
Chapt 1.作者是谷歌工作的工程师。
他的方法是“scientifically grounded, highly practical, and expressed in alanguage that even I（as a pragmatic person) can understand.”1. 作者的目的是通过search inside yourself这个课程促进个人发展和世界和平In Google, the effort to make these methodswidely accessible began when we asked ourselves this question: what if peoplecan also use contemplative practices to help them succeed in life and at work?In other words, what if contemplative practices can be made beneficial both topeople’s careers and to business bottom lines? {Anything that is both good forpeople and good for business will spread widely. If we can make this work,people around the world can become more successful at achieving their goals. Ibelieve the skills offered here will help create greater peace and happiness inyour life and the lives of those around you, and that peace and happiness canultimately spread around the world.在跋里作者也写到，Myepiphany is that “saving the world” is so hard and takes so much effort that if you strive hard to “save the world”, it is not likely to be sustainable. Instead, it is more skillful to focus on developinginner peace, compassion, and aspiration. When inner peace, compassion, andaspiration are all strong, compassionate action comes naturally andorganically,and hence, it is sustainable.2.提高情商的三个分支：attention trainingself-knowledge and self-masterycreating useful mental habits本书就是关于这三个方面Chapt 21. 情绪智力的定义The ability to monitor one's own andothers' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use thisinformation to guide one's thinking and actions是后天习得的根据经典定义，可以进一步分解为self-awareness，self-regulation，motivation (这三个是intrapersonal intelligence），empathy和scial skills（这两个是interpersonal intelligence)2. 情绪智力的好处stellar work performance, outstandingleadership, and the ability to create the conditions for happiness.其实就是有利工作，有利自己（关于有利自己的mental well-being；作者是这样说的-We all have a set point of happiness that we return to whenever theeuphoria of a pleasant experience or the sting of an unpleasant experiencefades out. Many of us assume this set point to be static, but my personalexperience and that of many others like Matthieu suggest this set point to bemovable with deliberate training.）3. 情绪智力是可以训练来获得、提高的4. 训练的途径：（1）Train attention原因：在stimulus和response中间有一定的space，够专注就能大大利用这个space进行冷静的思考【重要!The morewe are able to create space between stimulus and reaction, the more control wewill have over our emotional lives. 】训练attention的途径：mindfulness meditation(“Mindfulness is paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in thepresent moment, and non-judgmentally”.)（2）Train at the level of physiology情绪和一些Physical的变化紧紧联系（比如生气时胸部和头部会变tihgt）,所以要Train yourself to observe your mind all the time 或者说develop a high-resolutionperception of the body5.最后提的建议，2 min mindfulness a day - Allyou really need to do is to pay attention moment-to-moment without judging. Itis that simple.享受、珍惜being的感觉。
正念的启蒙课--《硅谷最受欢迎的情商课》读后感上海分公司计划财务部黄骅《硅谷最受欢迎的情商课》最初看到这本书的名字时，以为这又是一本噱头大于实质，看时热血沸腾看完扔到脑后的“励志鸡汤”。
在一个充满阳光的早上翻开它之后，却一发不可收拾的一章一章读下去，感觉充满暖洋洋的平静。
我觉得这本书的英文名更好的反应了此书的核心《Search Inside Yourself》，与其说这本书教的是情商，更不如说这本书是教你在禅修的过程中，顺便“收获”很多情商必备要素。
说起情商高，多数人往往先会想到有关行为的那些特征，比如善于为人处世，左右逢源甚至是有些贬义的世故圆滑？而这本书教的情商不是这样，他教你从深入自己的内心开始，从感知自我的情绪起步，到处理自我的情绪，再到发展同理心，用同样的觉知去感受他人的情绪，最终带着洞察力影响他人。
核心离不开“觉知”，强调“正念”。
因为练习瑜伽的关系，相关正念的书看的不少，而这本书却用了很多科学的例子来讲解说明禅修，加上作者生动的比喻，幽默的语言，让这本贯穿了禅修正念的书十分有趣，不会像其他那些，看的内心宁静却又昏昏欲睡（不是说其他书不好，而是我境界还没到...）。
比起一个深不可测的大师，陈一鸣更像是个有修为又知识渊博的朋友。
而且这本书每一段内容介绍后，都有相关的练习，可操作性强，就像教你做广播体操一样，一个个动作要点教下来，像训练肌肉一样的训练大脑。
所以这真是一本正念的启蒙好读物。
（我不是托，只是感恩与这本书的相遇，没有因为名字而错过）。
而说到禅修，其实并没有那么遥不可及，仿佛一提到禅修想到的就是各位世外高人。
不是这样。
书中说到最简单的禅修是由观察呼吸开始，将意识看作警觉观察呼吸进出的警卫，只关注一呼一吸。
看，其实并没有那么难，几乎每节瑜伽课都会以短短1,2分钟冥想作为开始，作用是让你从这一刻开始把自己与课堂外的一切分隔开，没有工作没有生活，没有过去未来，而只有现在，只关注自己。
而瑜伽本身也是一种禅，叫做“行禅”，关注的对象是自己的身体和行动，由此产生的感受。
