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We spend over a third of our day at work and so it makes sense to bring your whole self to work and not think you could even leave it behind. Read on for 10 of our favorite quotes on leadership.

Pushing through resistance lets us see what’s on the other side. -Seane Corn

Pushing through resistance lets us see what’s on the other side. -Seane Corn

My path to meditation and mindfulness has been unfolding over several years. My earliest memory is of my great aunt introducing me to meditation during the summer I spent with her in Wyoming between first and second grade. I vividly recall her placing her hands gently on my head saying, “quiet here,” as she slowly moved her hands down to my heart while saying, “so you can be here.”

My path to meditation and mindfulness has been unfolding over several years. My earliest memory is of my great aunt introducing me to meditation during the summer I spent with her in Wyoming between first and second grade. I vividly recall her placing her hands gently on my head saying, “quiet here,” as she slowly moved her hands down to my heart while saying, “so you can be here.”

A professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, Elissa Epel is the director of the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center. With Nobel laureate Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn—who discovered the anti-aging enzyme telomerase—Epel is coauthor of the New York Times best seller The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer. What follows is an excerpt about stress resilience from Chapter Four of that groundbreaking book.