Intellect v. emotions for law firm partners. Your role is society as a law firm partner is critically important: in many ways the balance of justice rests upon your ability to be disciplined and focused. The mind (see the must-read book for partners, "Emotional Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman) is unsteady, impulsive, fickle. It rambles. It has no direction to follow. But you are partner and thus have a divine goal -- your direction is set there you insure that your intellect has mastery over the mind's fickle wonderings, like a parent controlling the child. A partner can have emotions, but must not be emotional. A partner can have sentiments but must not be sentimental.  Passions are good but law firm partner cannot be passionate. A partner will never lose her control: her mind will not become agitated, lest she lose the clarity of her thinking. 

Russ W. Rosenzweig

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