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Check out Gottfredson’s graph re: training style and IQ. For an IQ range of 70-130, she lists 6 progressive learning styles:

·Slow, simple, supervised [70-80] ·Very explicit, hands-on [80-95] ·Mastery learning, hands-on [90-110] ·Written materials, plus experience [100-110] ·College format [110-120] ·Gathers, infers own information [115 and above] Occupation? ·Around 80 - assembler, food service, aide’s aide ·Around 100 - clerk, teller, police officer, machinist, sales ·Around 115 - manager, teacher, accountant ·Around 130 - attorney, chemist, executive

SOME ALLEGED IQs

John Locke, Philosopher, 165; Benjamin Franklin, Scientist, 165; Ludwig Von Beethoven, Composer, 165; Ulysses S Grant, General, 130; Bobby Fisher, Chess Player, 187; Leonardo da Vinci, Painter, 180; Martin Luther, Theologian, 170; John Stuart Mill, Economist, 200.

Daniel Goleman and others in field of what’s called Emotional Intelligence are busy gathering data that IQ, and even performance on SAT, are not best predictors of success in life, or happiness, which isn’t a surprise to most of us. Analogous to money, complete absence of either is not good, but presence of vast quantities of either do not predict happiness. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

Enter Howard and his Multiple Intelligences”( http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed410226.html ), because standard IQ tests do not measure such things as musical or artistic talent or physical coordination.

For example, one of Gardner’s intelligences is called Bodily-Kinesthetic, i.e., “using one’s mental abilities to coordinate one’s own bodily movements.” An IQ test also does not measure emotional stability, awareness, or a number of other important things. As Arakkal Sebastian says in an article about IQ, there are all too many stories throughout history of very smart individuals “who nevertheless were incapable of solving problem of how to be a human whose actions had [sic: would have] a positive effect on one’s fellow humans.”

Nonetheless, something called a “g” factor has been gleaned by comparing one person’s scores across various IQ tests. Attained through something called “factor analysis,” (see article from Scientific America - http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/~reingold/courses/intelligence/cache/1198gottfred.html ) g factor seems to measure “intelligence,” as in ability to deal with cognitively complexity. Says Scientific American, “More complex tasks require more mental manipulation, and this manipulation of information – discerning similarities and inconsistencies, drawing inferences, grasping new concepts and so on – constitutes intelligence in action. Indeed, intelligence can best be described as ability to deal with cognitive complexity.” “g” corresponds to mental aptitude (reasoning, problem solving, abstract thinking, quick learning), rather than accumulated knowledge, but those correlate. “Cognitive” is our keyword here. Yes, world is cognitively complex. However, it is perhaps infinitely more emotionally complex.

ENTER EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Emotional intelligence is ability to understand and manage your own emotions and those of others for positive outcome.

Emotional Intelligence consists of a wide range of capacities which enable people to excel, such as intentionality, creativity, resilience, self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, and empathy. Four areas of mastery are (1) Identifying emotions, (2) Using emotions, (3) Understanding emotions, and (4) Regulating emotions. The EQ-Map® is one assessment: http:/ inyurl.com/z94t .

According to Daniel Goleman, one theorist among many, but one who popularized concept in his book, Emotional Intelligence (http:/ inyurl.com/z9ny ), people who possess high Emotional Intelligence are people who truly succeed, “building flourishing careers, and lasting, meaningful relationships.”

Cognitive intelligence has long been studied. You can see some of research on Emotional Intelligence here: http://www.eoconsortium.org .

While our IQ is fixed at some point, we can improve and develop our EQ over our lifespan, i.e., it can be learned. Our EQ in many important ways facilitates our IQ.

EXAMPLE

If I asked you right now to multiple 11 x 111 in your head, and to take as long as you need, you probably wouldn’t have too much trouble using your cognitive intelligence to “solve” this problem.

But what if Ben Stein asked you that on television, in front of 1,000,000 viewers, and you had 10 seconds and $10,000 was at stake. This situation could render your cognitive intelligence dysfunctional if you were not able to handle pressure, perform under stress, focus, and prevent “flooding” from anxiety from disabling your neocortex!

There are many resources available for increasing your Emotional Intelligence - certified EQ coaches, books and eBooks, distance learning courses, EQ Learning Labs and teleclasses. Take an EQ assessment (http:/ inyurl.com/z94t ). Then delight in fact that whatever your “score” is, it can be improved.

Please keep in mind that since EQ involves learning emotional and social skills, you can’t “just” read about it. Read about it yes, to get fundamentals and vocabulary, but then work with someone trained in field so you can put theory into practice and get feedback.

So many times, we keep on keeping on, hoping some miracle will occur to change our lives for better. If nothing appears to be changing, look to see if you have put your faith in a particular way of doing things, rather than faith in your higher purpose.

We get comfortable. We make decisions, we get into groove and soon groove can become a rut and we are no longer fresh in our thinking. It becomes a greater challenge to drive out of that rut. It takes extra effort to pick ourselves up out of a deep hole and take another road.

It's about keeping fluid, about keeping yourself flexible and willing to change to fuel your higher purpose.

No matter what path you've chosen, you need to remember who you are and discover your purpose in life. Be willing to leave your previously chosen path once you have become aware of being called in another direction. This may be frightening. It may be exciting. And it can be both.

Being faithless means being open to change, being able to let go of something if it ceases to serve your higher purpose.

Your higher purpose may not change until you feel you have attained it. The path towards that higher purpose could. By all means, remain faithful to your greater cause. Allow yourself to be noncommitted, faithless, in your path to get there. Blow all doors open. Do what it takes to discover your truth. Stand firmly within it, and then speak it.