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February 13, 2007         Number 160

This issue:
 Aging can help your EQ

Action to take

If you know more, have more savvy, and are more effective

than you were years ago, give yourself credit for having a higher EQ.

 

Why


Pat Nicolino, a corporate consultant friend, was catching me up on

what had happened since I saw her in September. In short, she is having

great success at turning around yet another company and has

never felt better or enjoyed herself more.

 

“I’m 56 now and I have 20 more EQ points than when I was 36,”

she said with exuberance. “At 36 I would have been clueless

about how to accomplish things that I now do with ease.”

Everyone knows what IQ is. EQ, she explained, is knowing how

to get things done and doing them.

 

I love it. As you get older your experiences and new learning build on each other.

Do you have more confidence than you did twenty years ago? Do you

know more about how organizations work and how to work with people?

Have you learned a lot of new skills in the last twenty years?

If so, give yourself credit for a higher EQ (Experience Quotient).

 

I would suggest that at 18 the average IQ and EQ is 100. If you are

continually learning and growing, give yourself credit for an additional

EQ point each year since age 18. If you have gone back to school,

learned a new career, or have had other intense learning experiences,

give yourself extra credit.

 

After the insight, I realized there is a lot of overlap between experience quotient
and Dr. Daniel Goleman's emotional intelligence and his eventual use of
EQ for emotional intelligence. The broad skills he describes for emotional
intelligence have a lot of overlap with experience quotient. The difference is
an emphasis on having social intelligence vs. those skills getting better with experience.

Why is considering your EQ important? Psychology and medicine
have painted a negative picture of declining skills as we age.
Your EQ reminds you that you have grown, and are getting sharper with age.
No disrespect to my teenage children, but would you really want to go back
to the mind you had at 18? Neither would I. So what’s your EQ?

Quotes

 

Many people think you have to be very intelligent to be successful in life. 
Exhaustive research shows that many self-made millionaires have only average intelligence.

~Brian Tracy


Continuous effort–not strength or intelligence–is the key to unlocking our potential.

~Winston Churchill

 

Humor

America is the only country where it takes more brains to
fill out the tax forms than it does to make the money.


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THE DEFY AGING NEWSLETTER
Anti-Aging Psychology
Holistic Health and Wellness

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