The Mixing Desk
By Stephen Cotterell
**** Opinion Alert *****
One of the problems that smart, (traditionally) highly intelligent people have is that we habitually spend much so much time "living in our heads". That is to say that we are only using part, albeit a big part, of our intelligence system. A critical part of our processing capacity relies upon our neurons. Check out the idea that these can be found throughout our body. There are big clusters around our heart, gut etc (I am eternally grateful to Andy Smith for opening me up to this idea). You know the parts of the system that can provide a different perspective or insight to a developmental challenge.
Recently I have been playing with the idea of Applied Intelligence.
To see what I could possibly mean I wonder if you can visualise a mixing desk in a recording studio or on a computer screen? One like this but much, much better with an enormous number of faders (sliders)?
Each control is named with a particular type of intelligence. You are already familiar with this idea I know yet you might like to bear with me a little longer.
IQ
EQ
SQ
WQ
FQ
LQ
TQ
RQ
IrQ
VQ
JQ
CQ
ExQ
GQ
etc
etc
Each of these are under our control and are adjusted to blend or produce a particulary useful application of combined intelligences. Often relying upon good old IQ with a dash of EQ might be enough. Just think how much better our personal life experiences and choices that we make might make could be as we access and apply our intelligence appropriately for the context? What if we pulled back on some levels and increased others, just for a moment?
Regards
Stephen
p.s. I have no idea what the labels above might mean to you. Here are my thoughts, please feel free to add, change or develop the labels anyway you wish:
IQ - Intellience Quotient
EQ - Emotional
SQ - Spiritual
WQ - Wealth (not just financial)
CTQ - Change Thinking Quotient (originated by Tony Buzan)
PQ - Personal/Physical
FQ - Fun
LQ - Love
TQ - Trust
RQ - Rational
IrQ - Irrational
VQ - Vocal
JQ - Judgemental
CQ - Creative
ExQ - External
GQ - Global
etc
etc
Stephen Cotterell
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Executive Matters Limited
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