The Sum of Your Experiences

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The sum of your experiences is a common catch phrase, but what does it really mean? I recently spoke with a woman named Santi Ramesh. She was just named as one of the top 40 chief marketing officers in the world. That skill set that she has, those abilities, even the mindset, she recognizes contributing to her success. And then you said there was another example. I run a software company called Praxy.com and I hired an intern 22 years old who had no work experience. No one would have given her an opportunity like that just because of her resume.

Have you ever felt you had more life experience and talent than your job requires or even allows you to use? Today I've invited Soren Kaplan to the show to talk about how you can better tap into that experience yourself, and also in the people around you. I've long believed that what we know about other people is less valuable than what we don't know. That there's an enormous amount of potential under the surface. What's not on someone's resume, what's not in their current job title, and our ability to mine that experience in ourselves and in other people is, Kaplan believes, a predictor of our success. First we had IQ, then we had emotional intelligence, or EQ. This is XQ, Experiential Intelligence.

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