Your Success Intelligence and Success in Your Life

‘How successful you are in the real-world depends on you acquiring and developing all aspects of your intelligence .’ “ Successful Intelligence”, by Professor Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D. Yale University.

In this groundbreaking work professor Sternberg found that people with high analytic / memory intelligence, what the professor refers to as ‘academic intelligence’, but who had little creative and practical intelligence, usually did very well in school but very poorly in business. That is, what you need to do well in school is often very different from what is needed to perform in business.

Professor Sternberg says on successful intelligence -
"Successfully intelligent people discern their strengths and weaknesses, and then figure out how to capitalize on their strengths, and to compensate for or remediate their weaknesses.

Successfully intelligent individuals succeed in part because they achieve a functional balance among a "triarchy" of abilities: -

• Analytical abilities, which are used to analyse, evaluate, judge, compare and contrast;

• Creative abilities, which are used to create, invent, discover, imagine;

• Practical abilities, which are used to apply, utilize, implement, and activate.

Successfully intelligent people are not necessarily high in all three of these abilities, but find a way to effectively exploit whatever pattern of abilities they may have.

Moreover, all of these abilities can be further developed."

In his book ‘ The Millionaire Mind‘, Thomas Stanley, Ph.D. supports this conclusion. Dr Stanley’s study of decamillionaires found a majority of them had higher creative and practical intelligence than normal. Also, he also found that many of these highly successful people had not performed well at school.

Notwithstanding a relatively low-recorded academic intelligence they were very successful.

Dr Stanley concluded that you should work at developing the creative and practical aspects of your intelligence if you wanted financial and business success in life.

You increase your practical intelligence by increasing your practical knowledge: -

• Practical knowledge is the knowledge that you can use to reach a specific goal that you value.

• Practical knowledge gives you an action plan.

• Practical knowledge gives you the detailed instructions on how to do something that is important to you.

You are tapping into practical knowledge when: -

• You read biographies and autobiographies, magazine articles, do email or phone interviews, conversations with successful people.

• Use successful people as appropriate role models from whom you want to learn how to get what you need to learn, and assimilate this into your experience.
  

Successful people who you can adopt as your role model, personally or professionally, your can identify from books, auto or biographical, or articles. Stories that spell out from a detailed study of what that successful person did to succeed that you are seeking to assimilate into your life and career.

Be aware that your good role models have demonstrated high practical intelligence by their deeds and reputation.

As you gain your practical knowledge you gain a competitive advantage in the market you have identified, studied and found to be a niche where you can succeed, that you can exploit, and own. Preferably you are aiming for a market that is not overly crowded with competitors.

Professor Sternberg and Dr. Stanley explicitly warn that you should consider avoiding competition rich markets. That is, if you are serious about succeeding by carving out your niche in the business world, then try to avoid being a follower, that is by not doing what everyone else is doing.

Good practical knowledge is an idea you have that by your application can make you money or boost your reputation. The idea that most of your competitors in your niche do not have, are unwilling to use, or don’t have the capital, financial, intelligence, or human, to invest.

Your Creativity in pace with Your Creative Intelligence

Creativity is your ability to generate novel and interesting ideas and is defined by professor Sternberg as “Creative Intelligence”: -

• Creative intelligence: your ability to generate novel and interesting ideas must be combined with

• Analytical intelligence: your ability to analyse and evaluate ideas, and

• Practical intelligence: your ability to take an idea and turn it into a practical accomplishment

This is Your Essence of your success intelligence that will see you succeed and you own your Job of choice.

At APEC University you are encouraged to develop your Creative Intelligence. Your supervisor will mirror your assumptions to support you as you develop your Creative Intelligence.

Your high self-esteem is recognised as fundamental to risk taking. Through an emphasis on developing self–esteem you will feel that risk taking is a normal extension of your personality and through this you will find your niche; and write in your style. You will become more motivated and encouraged to express your creativity. Thus, you will define and redefine your boundaries, with time to think, to understand, to define the question and answer, as you progress and develop successfully.

APEC’s method of study is designed to give you the power to control what, how, when and where you learn. APEC’s courses are real and relevant in the international business world. Fortune 500 companies, international business and Governments recognise the relevance and superiority of the APEC graduate.

Success EQ: Executive Education, Coaching and Mentoring Program

APEC offers Success EQ as a personal coaching methodology for students’ to go on to exceed expectations. It is clear that often some people who are more gifted than others fall short of their potential, while other people with a fraction of the same gifts of intelligence rise above their circumstance and go on to exceed all expectations to achieve success in study, business, management, leadership, socially and with your family, time and time again, to fulfil your ambitions.

Picture this:   There is a key position to fill, and the organisation is very specific as to whom they want to fill the position. For instance, besides being able to come aboard and immediately command the respect of clients, colleagues and subordinates – the person needs to be qualified… and have a winning plan, as well as being that special someone who has what it takes to lead from the front...

Consider this:   You decide that you will enrol at APEC to discover your Success EQ to bring out your creative intelligence and high self esteem qualities in you…. to make all the potential within you a reality…to make you this very special person – the ideal CEO.. Able to ignite enthusiasm, to lead, and be rewarded … because you have shown the way forward to the organisation. You have a Plan to back you up. One you know you can deliver on. You have infallible belief in your ability with your winning Plan for the organisation.

In short, you have transformed your potential into REALITY and wealth creation, a growing reputation, and an international life style!