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

how you feel depends on which region of your brain is active, rather than on your situation or circumstance. Happiness is an inside game, literally and neurochemically.22

“What do we need to do so that within three years we can say this current crisis was the best thing that could have happened to our company?”

validating the tipping point of 75.29 Remarkably, Fredrickson’s assessment suggests that about 80 percent of individuals score below this tipping point.

The sustainable way to build a high-PQ team requires a twofold focus: (1) help the team members increase their individual PQs; (2) train the team to pay attention to the PQ Channel during team interactions.

But the moment you get emotionally attached to making the sale, you are no longer in true and pure Empathy, Exploration, or Innovation mode with the client. Your anxiety-based emotional need has shifted you right back to the Survivor Brain.

the only path to greater success with lasting happiness is through high PQ.

turn this person’s difficult personality into a gift and opportunity, rather than get upset by it.

success once he finally stopped believing that his happiness depended on his success.

“Vision lives in the PQ Brain. If you stay in the vision conversation long enough, you activate the PQ Brain in both yourself and your client. That brain is more creative in figuring out a plan and overcoming obstacles.” Another person added, “If you began planning while you were still operating with the Survivor Brain, you would get bogged down be