Man is in pursuit offindingways and means that can
ensure him success and happiness. He believes that higher education and highly-paid jobs only can bring that success. He thinks that IQ is the key to ensure success in life in this knowledge dominated world. Hence he is concentrating on the aspect of improving knowledge and education. It has become a trend everywhere in our consumerist life to focus our efforts only to develop IQ orIntelligentQuotient, neglecting the other Qs.
FouressentialQs We
do not bother to think that there are
Qsessentialfor success in human life. They are the necessary infrastructures on which life can properly be built and lived. But unfortunately inthe modernconsumer world they are neglected or forgotten. The fouressentialQs we need are: PQ or Physical Quotient, IQ orintelligentQuotient, EQ or Emotional Quotient and SQ or Spiritual Quotient.
Physical Quotient The
first Q is thePhysical infrastructure. It is
the most important one on which any life can exist. Without it no other superstructure can be built upon it. It involves body fitness and body wellness. PQ is manifested through an energetic andhealthy bodywith all its multisystems functioning well.
IntelligentQuotient
IQ comes next. TraditionallyIntelligentQuotient has
been defined as a uniform cognitive capacity that people are born with and can be measured by IQ tests. But today advance researches haveacceptedthat ones IQ can grow and change according to ones response to conditions and new opportunities. Today it is generallyacceptedthat each person has a unique profile or combination of intelligence since al human beings have several types of intelligences. Wecan improveeach of our intelligence, though some peoplecan improvemore readily in one intelligence area than in another.
Emotional Quotient
Emotional Quotient is the third one that is gaining
importance today. Recent studies have revealed that EQ deals with ones developed ability to deal with both intrapersonal and inter-personal matters. Inthe modernlife, stress has become an inevitable factor in so many ways. Stress has become a common ailment that leads to many other complicated diseases threatening life. EQ or Emotional Quotient has become very necessary for survival today to confront the real conditions of life and respond to them without getting attacked by diseases.
Spiritual Quotient
Spiritual Quotient though comes last, is the most
important one. It represents the truest and deepest self of every individual-- hisinnermostself. It is becoming popular today because many very rich and well-to-do persons are suffering very much in spite of all comfort available to them. It is the inner struggle of the self. Today, they have understood that SQ is the most necessary and fundamental infrastructure. In modern life this hunger for Spiritual Quotient can be seen explicitly everywhere. Modern man finds that there is a void or emptiness in his life in spite of all his efforts to construct walls around him for his selfish pleasure and safety. Mans thirst for inner peace is undergoing new trials.
Inter-dependent Qs
Each of these four goals has great relevance to life
and makes its distinctcontributionto life. All these four Qs are inter-connected and inter-dependent. For example, while knowledge (IQ) is really power, alone, it can quickly get into the quick sands of physical diseases and emotional stress, conflicts and violence, unless the PQ and EQ are integrated with IQ. One cannot do that without the Spiritual Quotients significantcontributionin terms of values, norms, perspectives and attitudes.
It is our attitude that defines
our connectivity It
is our attitude that defines and decides us.
Recent researches have revealed that we have three real brains (instead of one), one in our gut, another in our heart and the third in our head. We can compare this inter-connectivity to a patient, moving with seriousspinal injuryas one piece. If you try to lift his head separately it will be fatal and you have to move the patient as a single piece.
Human life is about connections
and connectivity. Many of us live today in piecemeal fashion and not as a single piece, not integrated and not connected. Living as one (single) piece with all these four Qs only can lead us to success, peace and joy.