How Positive Intelligence Helps You Live A Happy Life With Darren Kanthal

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Do you want to become more calm, creative, and emphatic? Then you need to practice Positive Intelligence. Positive intelligence is built on mental fitness, which is your ability to handle life's challenges. Stephen Jaye’s guest in this episode is Darren Kanthal, Founder of The Kanthal Group, where candid career conversations take place with clients. Darren talks with Stephen about how positive intelligence helps you face your insecurities and fears head-on! Doing so motivates you to take the right action for yourself and your business. Tune in! --- Listen to the podcast here: How Positive Intelligence Helps You Live A Happy Life With Darren Kanthal My guest, Darren Kanthal, is an Executive and Leadership Coach with The Kanthal Group. He's here to talk to us about a whole new idea behind how we assess ourselves. There are a lot of self-assessments or assessments of others. Everyone here is familiar with the IQ test, the intelligence quota, which is a measure of our intelligence and how smart we are. People have different feelings about whether or not they're biased or useful measures. What other measure that's coming to a more recent utility that most people probably heard of is the emotional intelligence or the EQ, which is a measure of how well we read our emotions and emotions of others, how mature we are with that. It differs from IQ because it's theoretically something we could improve on overtime. Darren's specialty in his leadership coaching is talking about something called Positive Intelligence or the PQ. Darren, welcome to the show. Thank you, Stephen. It's great to be here. Tell us about what PQ or Positive Intelligence is. What does this one measure when it comes to individuals or leaders? Positive intelligence is built upon what we call mental fitness and we define mental fitness as your ability to handle life's challenges with a positive rather than negative mindset. There's lots of talk about mindset and this positive intelligence has its own vernacular, way of practicing, being more mentally fit, etc. PQ, Positive Quotient, is measured by taking a short assessment to see how often your brain is in positive thought versus negative thought. Does this relate to that inner chatterbox that a lot of people talking about having in their head that, " I'm not good enough. Something's going to go wrong," and all that type of stuff? Does it go further than that? That's the starting point. It takes many different names. The internal dialogue and conversations we have, the imposter. In the world of positive intelligence, we call it the judge. Positive Intelligence is built upon a book written by Shirzad Chamine. He too, is an executive coach and his book has been translated into over twenty languages. There are positive intelligence coaches in over 50 countries in all languages and in all cultures. We all have some judge and the judge is judging ourselves. It's judging you and it's judging our circumstance. When we start hearing that voice of, “I'm not good enough, you’re not good enough, my situation isn't good enough,” that's when we know where our judge is at play. If you have strong roots and you're in the right environment, you flourish. Click To Tweet There's an internal judge, which we all have in our head, that's telling us and possibly telling some of my readers, "My idea is never going to work. I'm not the one to implement it." We have external judges, which are the people around us, the people who are telling you your unique way of viewing the world is not sufficient. You don't have a right to your unique way of wanting to be or whatever. What I'm wondering is in your view, do you think the external or the internal judge is more dangerous to most people? I believe the internal judge is. It's interesting how quick a lot of people are to point the finger and say, “It's you. It's your fault. You're the reason why things didn't go right for me,