Wednesday, June 10, 2009

IQ vs EQ vs AQ

Just came to know AQ this afternoon after attending weekly briefing by MD. Quite interesting, i think i am currently low AQ too... haha...
Anyway, it's not too late and it's time to find ways to upgrade my AQ!!!
Below is what i surf from web which i think quite true...

IQ vs EQ vs AQAbstract:
Decision making is difficult, we say. Intelligence is not sufficient in making correct decisions, we say. We know we are right, but I dwell deeper in this article to show how right we are when we say that! Also, I give a hint of how decision making can be made easier if we just understand those noise factors that are not actually real factors of good decision making. A part of effective decision making is ground work to understand the underlying factors, and then learning some from developing a feedback or history of past results.
PS: This is in continuation to my blogs to definition of success and failure of intelligence by itself.

EQ is Emotional Intelligence Quotient, or just Emotional Quotient. IQ is Intelligence Quotient and AQ is Adversity Quotient.

We use these to try to understand "success". Why do some succeed where others fail? (Or, asked another way, why do others succeed where I fail?)
Different sources predict and propose success as a trait of any one emotion, namely, valor, attitudes, fairness, sensitivity, beauty, etc. These same are measure in some of these XQ's.

AQ, for instance, measures how stoic a person is, and proposes that the more stoic one is, the more he can resist failure. It makes sense, because when you don't break or give up in extreme conditions, you are bound to succeed. However, it forgets that the person may be stoic, but may also be reticent and aloof, and therefore alienated. He may not have money, people network, love, happiness and consequently balance in his life. He might be a successful fighter, but may have picked the wrong fights (or is often on the wrong side). Does that account for success?

IQ, another such measure, is a yardstick to one's intelligence, the raw computing brain power to solve complexity. Often times, IQ points to the amount of imaginative out-of-box thinking potential of the person. However, creating a great innovative solution is far from human friendly. An intelligent person can choose to develop a space vehicle for humanity or an nuclear weapon for the terrorists. Yes, both are tools, and intelligence has served him well. However, this does in no way denote whether he is cynical and antagonistic, or not. (It might seem obvious that if a person is intelligent, he will be right or choose the right side. Unfortunately, intelligence alone doesn't seem to be sufficient.)

Both AQ and IQ are measures of individual success, or "achievement". To succeed in the #3 type of success, i.e., growing by helping others grow, one needs to be an effective leader.
"A leader must be influential and wise."
"Wisdom is experience plus the knowledge of involved factors and their priority."

EQ is a measure of these (1) people skills (social bonding) and (2) wisdom (understanding of underlying factors, mostly through experience). To give an example, Muhammed was influential, Bill Gates is wise and Albert Einstein was intelligent. Muhammed grew with others, but it is arguable whether he spoke the truth. Bill Gates provides tools that work well with people, and is a good leader. Einstein was intelligent in Physics and demonstrated out-of-the-box thinking in his field. But in his own testimony, he wasn't a very good people's person or leader (could not have ruled Israel).

I believe that Emotional Intelligence also is not a perfect quotient of predicting future success, because I believe it measures the reflection of the true ingredients, not the actual ingredients. I write it as follows in my Theory of Everything:
"Emotional Intelligence is just a shadow of the actual "core" values, attitudes and quest for co-existence, love and fairness."

This essential means that, the attitudes of co-existence (or the attitude of learning them) had already taken root in the person of high Emotional Intelligence. It is this passion to learn the right attitudes of co-existence that is the actual core value, that reflects as Emotional Intelligence.

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