The Power of Your Experiences

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I wrote this book because after working with thousands of leaders around the world globally, I also looked inside at my own experiences and I needed to reconcile some things. So I grew up in Northern California. My mother, when she was three years old, developed a mental illness,. When I was about 15, we had moved about 16 times. And my father was rarely home. The same things that impacted me negatively also delivered unique gifts when I learned how to look at my experiences more holistically. Even negative experiences can produce assets. You are hearing it absolutely right.

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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