Measuring Mental Fitness (PQ)

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Mental fitness is a measure of the strength of your positive mental muscles (Sage) versus the negative (Saboteur).  

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Saboteurs react to challenges in ways that generate negative emotions such as stress, disappointment, self-doubt, regret, anger, shame, guilt, or worry.

 

Your Sage handles challenges through positive emotions like empathy, gratitude, curiosity, creativity, self-confidence, and calm, clear-headed, laser-focused action. 

 

The relative strength of your positive Sage versus negative Saboteurs is called PQ (Positive Intelligence Quotient).  

 

PQ is the measure of your Mental Fitness. It's the best predictor of how happy you are and how well you perform relative to your potential. 

 

You can boost your PQ significantly with practice. 

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Breakthrough Research

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PQ is a synthesis of recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science. 

 

Research included: 

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• hundreds of CEOs

• sales, operations, and technology teams

• Stanford students

• elite athletes

• 400,000 participants from 50 countries

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The research reveals that:

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• Saboteurs and Sage live in entirely different regions of the brain.

• You can cause a dramatic shift in brain activation to weaken Saboteurs and boost Sage.

• 3 core muscles constitute mental fitness.

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Breakthrough Results

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Within 6-8 weeks of mental fitness training you'd be able to see the results in MRI imaging:

 

• Increased grey matter in the PQ Brain region, where your Sage lives 

• Decreased grey matter in the Survivor Brain region, where your Saboteurs live  

 

Improvements in these competencies lead to substantial results:

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• At MetLife, trained salespeople outsold the control group by 37%

• Motorolla recorded improved productivity in 93% of trained employees

• In a UK restaurant group, higher competency resulted in 34% greater profit growth

• At Sanofi-Aventis Pharmeceutical, the average salesperson with improved competency sold $55,200 more per month

• At L’Oreal, strength in these competencies resulted in $91,370 increase per sales person

• At CIBC, strength in these competencies account for 32% of booked sales and 71% of pipeline sales

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3 Core Muscles of Mental Fitness

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3 Core muscles constitute your mental fitness:

 

1. Saboteurs Interceptor Muscle

Your Saboteurs generate all your negative emotions, including stress, anxiety, self-doubt, anger, avoidance, procrastination, insensitivity or discontent. Mental fitness requires the ability to intercept and discredit the Saboteurs.

 

2. Sage Muscle

Your Sage is the one in you that handles challenges with a clear and calm mind, and positive emotions. It also has access to your 5 primary powers. 

 

All you need to paint any canvas is 3 primary colors. Similarly, through factor analysis research we’ve discovered that there are only 5 primary powers: Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, and Activate.  

 

For peak performance, you learn to boost all 5 powers and know when to use which power.  

 

3. Self-Command Muscle

You’re not in full command of your mind. If you were, you would choose to entirely silence the Saboteurs in your head. You would choose to not stress out over what you can’t control, push away self-doubts, recover from disappointments immediately, and spend little time in anger, regret, or blame.  

 

PQ Reps are innovative 10-second exercises which build up this crucial Self-Command muscle in the brain. You learn to run your brain, rather than allow your Saboteur-hijacked brain to run you.