Albert Einstein’s was estimated at 160,
Madonna’s is 140, and John F. Kennedy’s was
only 119, but as it turns out, your IQ score pales
in comparison with your EQ, MQ, and BQ scores
when it comes to predicting your success and
professional achievement.
IQ tests are used as an indicator of logical
reasoning ability and technical intelligence. A
high IQ is often a prerequisite for rising to the
top ranks of business today. It is necessary, but
it is not adequate to predict executive
competence and corporate success. By itself, a
high IQ does not guarantee that you will stand
out and rise above everyone else.

Research carried out by the Carnegie Institute of
Technology shows that 85 percent of your
financial success is due to skills in “human
engineering,” your personality and ability to
communicate, negotiate, and lead. Shockingly,
only 15 percent is due to technical knowledge.
Additionally, Nobel Prize winning Israeli-
American psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, found
that people would rather do business with a
person they like and trust rather than someone
they don’t, even if the likeable person is
offering a lower quality product or service at a
higher price.

With this in mind, instead of exclusively
focusing on your conventional intelligence
quotient, you should make an investment in
strengthening your EQ (Emotional Intelligence),
MQ (Moral Intelligence), and BQ (Body
Intelligence). These concepts may be elusive and
difficult to measure, but their significance is far
greater than IQ.

****Emotional Intelligence
EQ is the most well known of the three, and in
brief it is about: being aware of your own
feelings and those of others, regulating these
feelings in yourself and others, using emotions
that are appropriate to the situation, self-
motivation, and building relationships.

***Top Tip for Improvement: First, become aware
of your inner dialogue. It helps to keep a journal
of what thoughts fill your mind during the day.
Stress can be a huge killer of emotional
intelligence, so you also need to develop healthy
coping techniques that can effectively and
quickly reduce stress in a volatile situation.

******Moral Intelligence
MQ directly follows EQ as it deals with your
integrity, responsibility, sympathy, and
forgiveness. The way you treat yourself is the
way other people will treat you. Keeping
commitments, maintaining your integrity, and
being honest are crucial to moral intelligence.

***Top Tip for Improvement: Make fewer excuses
and take responsibility for your actions. Avoid
little white lies. Show sympathy and
communicate respect to others. Practice
acceptance and show tolerance of other people’s
shortcomings. Forgiveness is not just about how
we relate to others; it’s also how you relate to
and feel about yourself.

*****Body Intelligence
Lastly, there is your BQ, or body intelligence,
which reflects what you know about your body,
how you feel about it, and take care of it. Your
body is constantly telling you things; are you
listening to the signals or ignoring them? Are
you eating energy-giving or energy-draining
foods on a daily basis? Are you getting enough
rest? Do you exercise and take care of your
body? It may seem like these matters are
unrelated to business performance, but your
body intelligence absolutely affects your work
because it largely determines your feelings,
thoughts, self-confidence, state of mind, and
energy level.

***Top Tip For Improvement: At least once a day,
listen to the messages your body is sending you
about your health. Actively monitor these signals
instead of going on autopilot. Good nutrition,
regular exercise, and adequate rest are all key
aspects of having a high BQ. Monitoring your
weight, practicing moderation with alcohol, and
making sure you have down time can
dramatically benefit the functioning of your
brain and the way you perform at work.

****What You Really Need To Succeed
It doesn’t matter if you did not receive the best
academic training from a top university. A
person with less education who has fully
developed their EQ, MQ, and BQ can be far
more successful than a person with an
impressive education who falls short in these
other categories.

Yes, it is certainly good to be an intelligent,
rational thinker and have a high IQ; this is an
important asset. But you must realize that it is
not enough. Your IQ will help you personally,
but EQ, MQ, and BQ will benefit everyone
around you as well. If you can master the
complexities of these unique and often under-
rated forms of intelligence, research tells us you
will achieve greater success and be regarded as
more professionally competent and capable.

www.forbes.com/sites/keldjensen/2012/04/12/intelligence-is-overrated-what-you-really-need-to-succeed/

Quite insightful...

Thanks for reminding me!