Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a psychological approach that involves analyzing strategies used by successful individuals and applying them to reach a personal goal. It relates thoughts, language, and patterns of behaviour learned through experience to specific outcomes.
Neuro programming provides practical ways to change how you think, view past events, and approach your life.
So, what drives you?
IQ is used to determine academic abilities and identify individuals with off-the-chart intelligence or mental challenges. EQ is a better indicator of success in the workplace and identifies leaders, good team players, and people who best work by themselves.
Emotional Intelligence, or emotional quotient (EQ), is defined as an individual’s ability to identify, evaluate, control, and express emotions. People with high EQ usually make great leaders and team players because of their ability to understand, empathize, and connect with the people around them. IQ, or intelligence quotient, is a score derived from several standardized tests designed to assess an individual’s intelligence.
There are differing perspectives on whether EQ or IQ is more important. Those in the EQ camp say, “A high IQ will get you through school, a high EQ will get you through life.”
Those who believe cognitive ability (IQ) are a better predictor of success and EQ are overrated, sometimes even in emotionally demanding jobs. One meta-study compiled results from several studies comparing IQ and EQ, and researchers found that IQ accounted for more than 14% of job performance: emotional intelligence for less than 1%.
Let’s have a deeper look at what drives success by understanding the different functions of our brains.
The Programmed Self (IQ)
Programmed Self (IQ) is our learnings in life; these can be based on many different inputs: Childhood and Adult experiences, Educational background, Religious and Economic beliefs, and other inputs. The more quality information you enter, the better your output.
The brain’s rational Self functions include analysis, sensory processing, learning, and memory, motor control, decision-making, reasoning, and problem-solving. The neocortex’s primary and overarching responsibility (Rational Self) is to determine what is going on in the outside world.
The Emotional Self (EQ)
The emotional Self (EQ) or amygdala functions of the brain are responsible for processing positive emotions, such as happiness, and negative ones, such as fear and anxiety.
The Reticular Activating System (RAS part of MQ)
RAS is a bundle of nerves at our brainstem that filters out unnecessary information so the important stuff gets through. The RAS is the reason you learn a new word and then start hearing it everywhere. … In the same way, the RAS seeks information that validates your beliefs.
We know beyond all reasonable doubt that IQ is no guarantee of success. But we also know that EQ is no guarantee of success either. So, is there something else going on?
Motivational Intelligence (MQ)
Motivational Intelligence (MQ) is the third level of intelligence that we use every day of our lives. MQ is the ability to motivate ourselves and others; it has a huge impact on job performance, employee engagement, self-satisfaction, and measurable increases in self and others’ leadership.
MQ is a person’s ability to identify and manage negative thoughts and self-limiting beliefs in order to overcome obstacles and accomplish goals.
Learning to balance your IQ, EQ, and MQ is crucial to your success and life. With proper EQ and MQ development, you can significantly increase your opportunities for success.
The interesting thing about motivational intelligence is that it is both 100 per cent genetically developed and 100 per cent environmentally influenced.
How does this tie into self-leadership and building a business?
If you haven’t taken care of the MQ, you’ll make bad decisions.
But the good thing is MQ is programmable.
But you can programme yourself poorly, e.g. say “I’m always bad with names”…
Example: want to grow/develop business but don’t have time…. So will never grow it and get by. This is where MQ comes in, and you’ll see that every great leader masters their own motivation.
The only way to develop MQ is by goal setting.
So, we have three levels of intelligence; however, the real key is understanding the pathway by which information flows through our brain.
Everything you experience through your five senses flows into your brain, going from MQ to EQ and ultimately ending up at IQ. Our motivational intelligence is actually the very first filter of everything that comes into our minds.
As such, our motivational intelligence actually influences our emotions and the logic with which we look at things.
Research has shown us that the level of our motivational intelligence actually influences both our emotional intelligence and even our IQ.
Like IQ and EQ, motivational intelligence can also be increased.
So, what Carol Dweck showed in her research is that, literally, the way we use our brains changes based upon what we believe about our capabilities. At the most fundamental level, our beliefs are the drivers, the core motives that propel how we access our minds’ power. AND… the way our mind works propels the behaviours we exhibit.
Now here’s the thing: these two motivational intelligence mindsets, fixed and growth, don’t just exist in children but in adults as well. In fact, if you think about this for a second, you see these mindsets in your people daily.
Every time an employee makes an excuse rationalizes why they can’t do something or blames someone else, you see a fixed mindset.
Every time someone fights, changes or clings to how they’ve always done something (even if it isn’t working). You’re seeing a fixed mindset.
Almost every employee issue we face is caused by a fixed mindset.
Our thoughts and beliefs drive our actions, and our actions dictate our results. It is all cause and effect.
If you are not getting the results you want, you need to change the actions you are taking by changing the way you think about your challenges or problems.
