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Zusammenfassung von Positive Intelligence

Name: Positive Intelligence
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Author: Shirzad Chamine

Shirzad Chamine

Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and how You Can Achieve Yours

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Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine is a self-help book that teaches readers how to boost their mental strength and achieve peak performance. It offers practical techniques for identifying and overcoming the negative thoughts and behaviors that hold us back.

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What’s in it for me? Learn to make your mind work for you

Ever felt like you were your own worst enemy? Remember those times you had something sorted and ready to execute, but you kept worrying about it till you bumped it?

Or maybe you had a brilliant idea and suddenly got on the defensive when a friend or colleague tried to give you feedback. Everyone has these experiences every day , but such anxiety can be crippling in extreme cases.

The good news is, most of these confrontations happen inside your mind. With the right approach, you can train your mind to work for you – by applying the concept of positive intelligence.

We'll give positive intelligence a fancy name. Let’s call it PQ.

PQ is simply the percentage of time your brain behaves like your best buddy rather than your worst enemy.

In this Blink to Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine, you’ll learn how to sidestep your Saboteurs, those internal obstacles that stand in the way of your journey through life. You’ll also train the parts of your brain that help you tap into your inner wisdom, and build your PQ brain muscles.

This accessible formula will improve your mental health, elevate your performance and transform you into a person people want to be around.

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Understanding your Saboteurs

Meet Peter, a smart entrepreneur who’s figured out exactly what he needs to enjoy an early and happy retirement. $10 million. But then he rejects a $125 million offer to sell his business. Why? His college mate already sold his business for $330 million.

Peter might have had high stakes, but his story is everyone’s story. Money, status and accolades won’t satisfy you because the targets keep shifting. To be truly happy is to be happy despite your circumstances, and the only place you can achieve that is inside your head.

This starts by tackling your Saboteurs, those entrenched thoughts and habits that fuel your anxiety. These Saboteurs inhabit your Survivor brain, the part of your brain you rely on to keep you safe. It’s the Saboteurs that guide your survival instincts to run when you sense danger or find food when you're hungry.

As you grow into adulthood where rational decisions matter more, these primal instincts can get in the way of progress.

So what are these Saboteurs?

Chief among the ten Saboteurs is the Judge. Your Judge consistently beats you up for not doing enough. You’ll set a target and achieve it, then the next minute you’re thinking about the next milestone.

Another source of anxiety comes from the Stickler who’s always craving perfection. The Stickler has this constant drive to do things better even at the cost of your health and wellbeing. And then we have the Pleaser. The Pleaser tries to humor everyone, eventually becoming resentful in the process. Meanwhile the Hyper-achiever Saboteur convinces you that working yourself to the ground will earn you validation.

People with a Victim Saboteur believe displaying their suffering will earn them sympathy. And a Hyper-rational Saboteur will consistently dismiss emotional considerations, insisting instead on fact after fact.

There’s more. Many people are governed by a relentless pursuit of excitement. This is the Restless Saboteur at play. On the other side of the spectrum we have the Hyper-vigilant Saboteur, who’s always alert to the next pitfall, and the Controller, who resorts to micromanaging everything and every situation around them. Finally we have the Avoider Saboteur. This Saboteur consistently seeks only the positive and dodges any and all conflicts in the hope that their problems will go away.

Everyone of us deals with a combination of these ten Saboteurs on a daily basis. But there’s good news. These habits can actually be tamed into submission with some clever techniques. Hang on to your hats!

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Embracing your Sage

A Chinese parable tells the story of a farmer whose disinterested reaction to fortune and misfortune stuns his neighbors. From losing his prize stallion to having it return with a few mares, or having his son miss conscription because the kid fell off one of the mares and broke his leg, the farmer offers the same boring reaction: “No one really knows what’s good or bad.”

This farmer is cruising on the right side of his brain – where his inner Sage resides.

How to improve your PQ

Now you’ve learned about Saboteurs and the Sage that counters them. Let’s put that knowledge to action and improve your PQ.

The first step to improving your PQ is to weaken your Saboteurs. It’s so easy. Once you identify a source of anxiety – say a judge, a tendency to avoid or that urge to be perfect – give it a name. By consciously labeling a particular Saboteur, you expose it as a lie and reduce its grip over you.

Thriving in Sage mode

In 1996, Harvard-trained brain researcher Dr. Jill Taylor suffered a severe and rather peculiar stroke. The stroke shut down the left side of her brain – where survival mechanisms reside, and left her relying on her right side, where the PQ brain is found.

You’d expect someone in that condition to be miserable, but she felt calm and uplifted despite seeing her life and career go up in flames. After recovery, she realized her PQ brain needed to run the firm while the Survivor brain acted as an assistant.

Practical applications of positive intelligence

Now you’ve learned the benefits of positive intelligence and how to achieve it, how do you apply it to yourself and your relationships? Here are two examples to show you how it works.

Meet Frank, the CEO of a company whose stock took such a beating in the 2008 recession he broke down in tears in front of his daughter. A bit skeptical of the Sage’s capacity to reap rewards off routine activities, it took him time to embrace PQ exercises.

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Positive Intelligence (2012) provides a way to unlock your true potential by helping you identify and conquer common mental blocks. It also shows you how to tap into your deeper wisdom to live a more balanced, productive, and happy life.

Wer Positive Intelligence lesen sollte

Anyone who wants to unlock their true potential
People looking for a motivation boost
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Über den Autor

Shirzad Chamine is the former CEO of the world’s largest coach-training organization. He has trained managers and coaches in many of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as faculty at Yale and Stanford business schools. This is his first book.

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