Living LQ, not Just Knowing LQ

"Andy, your ideas on LQ are good, but I am facing very difficut situations in my life now, both at work and at home. Often, when the situation happens, how can I still remember your concepts, let along apply them?"

I’m going to be very honest with you, and this may sound uncomfortable.

If you can’t remember or apply LQ when things are difficult, it means you have not trained it deeply enough yet.

In crisis, nobody rises to their ideas.

They fall back to their conditioning.

That’s true for soldiers, CEOs, parents, and leaders.

When pressure hits:

• your old habits surface
• your fears take over
• your default patterns run the show

That’s why I don’t teach LQ as a concept.

I teach it as a daily discipline.

I practise LQ when things are small, so that when things are big, I don’t need to think.

Just like:

• you don’t think about braking when a car cuts in front of you
• you don’t think about balance when you walk

You train first. You apply later.

So the real question is not:

‘Why can’t I remember LQ in hard times?’

The real question is:

‘How can I practise LQ daily, so it becomes instinctive when life is hard?’

That is the difference between knowing LQ and living LQ.