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139. IQ · Just For Today

Jessica Figueroa: Oi, that's hello in Portuguese. Welcome to the Just For Today podcast. My name is Cindy Morlar. IQ stands for intelligence quotient. They say that your IQ is fixed by your mid-20s. That your IQ is fixed. This is a number assigned to you, your intelligence quotient. Now it is a number that represents your intelligence, but your it represents a portion of your intelligence. But I don't want to talk about your IQ. If you don't know what it is, you can take a simple IQ test. on the computer and get either a score or a generalization. It might not be perfect. If you want a a real IQ test, you gotta go to a psychologist or psychiatrist and go through all these testing. But if you want a general idea of what your IQ is, you could go online and take some tests. And if you're curious, I encourage you to do it. But it is a representation of part of who you are and how your brain works. But did you know that IQ has no link to success. Now there are factors like most presidents of the United States have had IQs over 130 or 135. So there are some things that there's generalizations about IQ, but there is no link that has been studied over a long period of time that links IQ to success. But there is one for your emotional intelligence, your EQ. Your emotional intelligence has been linked to success. What does that mean? Well I don't have enough time on a two to three minute podcast to explain all of that to you, or even do I know everything. I know so little, you guys. But what I do know is if that is linked to success and I am made in God's image, which means I am capable of all the successes, then I need to be improving my emotional intelligence. So where where my intelligent quotient, my IQ is fixed by my mid-20s, my emotional intelligence is not fixed. It can continue to get higher and higher and higher. So just for today, I want you to think about where your emotional intelligence lies and I want you to think about improving it because there is a link between that and your success. I believe in you guys. If you don't believe in yourself, I want you to know I do because I have seen people grow their EQ at many different ages of their lives and have things in their life they never thought were possible. So let's start that just for today.