Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS

True innovation is about breaking out of the boxes, the assumptions, and the habits that hold us back.

From the Sage perspective, there is no such thing as a bad circumstance or outcome. Every outcome simply points to the first step toward the next positive outcome. The Sage moves you one positive step at a time, regardless of what life throws at you.

imagine yourself at the end of your life looking back at the choices you are now facing. From that vantage point, what do you wish you had chosen at this juncture?

Under the Sage’s influence, you focus on doing what needs to get done, but you don’t sweat the outcome. You

Ironically, deciding to just let a negative situation go rather than actively turn it into a gift is a gift in itself: you’re strengthening the Sage muscle that allows you to let go of regret, guilt, or shame.

“If an alien who didn’t understand our language witnessed this interaction between Kathy and Karl, would he rate it as a positive energy exchange, a negative energy exchange, or neutral?” The

shift as much of your attention as you can to your body and any of your five senses for at least ten seconds. This is a PQ rep, just like the reps you do at the gym.

That is the initial role of all Saboteurs: helping us survive.

The Sage perspective is about accepting what is, rather than denying, rejecting, or resenting what is. The Sage perspective accepts every outcome and circumstance as a gift and opportunity. (I emphasize every to take away a loophole through which the Saboteurs could sneak in.)