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We have heard of love and intelligence; what is Love Intelligence  or LQ in short? Love Intelligence (LQ) is the ability to use love as a strategic force that inspires people, creates ideas, drives collaboration, and turns emotional energy into lasting success. It is not about romance or softness, but about leveraging love as a competitive advantage in business, leadership, and life. Key Elements of Love Intelligence: Strategic Use of Love: LQ means using love intentionally to build trust, create value, and generate wealth. Love is seen as a system and a skill, not just a feeling. Foundation for Trust and Value: Love creates trust, trust creates value, and value leads to profit. This is described as the real formula for wealth and success. Emotional Connection: LQ is about connecting with others sincerely, leading with care, and making decisions with clarity and compassion. Human Advantage Over AI: In an era where artificial intelligence can replicate many skills, LQ provides ...

A Tiny YKK Zipper Could Save Your Life: What AI Cannot Replace What if a tiny zipper costing just a few dollars could mean the difference between life and death? We use zippers every day.  On our trousers, jackets, handbags, luggage and shoes. Most of us never think about them.  Until one breaks. But imagine a firefighter whose protective clothing fails during an emergency. Or a worker whose safety equipment cannot be fastened properly. In such situations, a small failure can have serious consequences. A zipper may be small. But the responsibility behind it can be enormous. The Story: Why YKK Is Different Look at the zipper on your clothes. You may see three letters: YKK. YKK is a Japanese company founded by Tadao Yoshida in 1934. His philosophy was simple: “No one prospers without rendering benefit to others.” He called this the Cycle of Goodness . Instead of asking only how to make more money, he believed a company should create value for everyone involved. YKK became known...

When You Are Not Getting What You Want, Go Back to the 3Cs Many people become frustrated when they don't achieve what they want. So they look for someone who has succeeded before them. They ask:  “What's the secret?” “What strategy did you use?” “What am I doing wrong?” My answer is often much simpler: Go back to basics. And my basics are just three things: Care. Courage. Connection. 1. CARE — Do You Care Enough About the Purpose? Care doesn't mean working harder. It doesn't mean spending more hours preparing or making everything perfect. It means:  Do you care enough to understand WHY you are doing it? Imagine you are organising a reunion for old classmates.  You can spend weeks designing the perfect poster, choosing the best restaurant and planning entertainment. But what is the real purpose?  To eat?  To be entertained? Or to bring old friends' hearts together again? Once you understand the purpose, suddenly you know what really matters and what doesn't. That...

In an AI World Where Anyone Can Create Anything, Who Can You Trust? Today, almost anyone can create almost anything. AI can write an impressive article in seconds.  It can create beautiful photographs of people who never existed. It can clone voices, generate videos, compose music, design advertisements and make ordinary people appear to be experts. Soon, the question may no longer be: “Can this be created?”   Almost certainly, it can. The more important question becomes: “Can I trust it?” And even more importantly: “Can I trust YOU?” AI Makes Creation Cheap. Trust Becomes Expensive. When everyone can produce professional-looking content, appearance becomes less valuable. When everyone can sound knowledgeable, knowledge alone becomes less differentiating. When anyone can create the image of success, reputation becomes more important than presentation. The competitive advantage therefore shifts. From what you can create to whether people believe you . From information to i...

The Ultimate Love Intelligence: Be a Good Person We spend our lives learning how to be smarter. How to make more money.  How to communicate better.  How to influence people.  How to succeed. But perhaps at the end of everything, Love Intelligence (LQ) comes down to something remarkably simple: Be Good — have goodness in your heart. Do Good — turn goodness into action. Create Good — leave people, relationships, organisations and the world a little better because you were there. And what about the reward? Doing good does not guarantee that every good act will bring an immediate reward. Life doesn't work like a vending machine. But over time, goodness tends to create something extremely valuable: Trust. Reputation. Relationships. Meaning. Inner peace. And these often create opportunities and rewards that money alone cannot buy. This is where the 3Cs of LQ ultimately lead: Care → Be Good. Perhaps we don't need to make Love Intelligence complicated. Do good ...

For 2026, the Mid-Autumn Festival is 25 September, the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. But the true meaning is much deeper than mooncakes and lanterns. The real meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival: Tuan Yuan 团圆 The full moon represents 圆满: wholeness and completeness. That is why the festival became closely associated with 团圆, the reunion of family and people who matter to us. Yet 团圆 does not simply mean everyone sitting around the same table. It means remembering: Who has walked through life with me? Who have I neglected because I became too busy? Who deserves to hear from me while I still have the opportunity? We spend much of the year chasing things, money, success, recognition, targets. Mid-Autumn Festival gives us one evening to stop chasing and come home to people. That is also why the festival connects naturally with Love Intelligence LQ. Care: remember the people who matter. Courage: reach out even if the relationship has become distant. Connection: don't merely send a mooncake;...

“I Feel So Far from My Family. How Do I Love Again?” A question people often ask me is: “My children seem so far away from me. I’m no longer close to my spouse, my family or even my friends. I feel that I don’t know how to give love anymore. What can I do?” My answer is: Don't begin by trying to feel more love. Begin by doing one loving thing. Dear You teaches us this beautifully.  Nobody in the movie gives lectures about love. They simply do love. Musheng works long hours and saves whatever he can for his family. He shows us that love can be responsibility. Nanzhi writes letters and sends money for 18 years without asking for recognition. She shows us that love can be giving without keeping score. Shurou waits, raises her children and continues living. She shows us that love can be faithfulness. Xie Laishun does not control his daughter. He gives her the freedom to live her own life. He shows us that sometimes love means letting go. There is something important here. They don'...

How Love Intelligence Creates Sustainability Sustainability is often misunderstood as simply “going green.” It is much bigger than that. Sustainability means meeting today’s needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs . For companies, sustainability means creating long-term stakeholder value by balancing economic performance, environmental responsibility, social well-being and ethical governance. This is where Love Intelligence (LQ) becomes highly relevant. The Love Intelligence framework is built around 3Cs: Care, Courage and Connection . 1. CARE — Think beyond yourself and today Care means considering how our actions affect other people, society and future generations. Personally, we care for our health, relationships, family and resources instead of sacrificing tomorrow for immediate gratification. Corporately, Care means looking beyond short-term profits. A company considers employees, customers, communities, suppliers and the environment ...

Can a Man and a Woman Be Just Friends? Dear You Gives Us a Beautiful Answer. One of the biggest questions people ask after watching Dear You  movie is: Did Nanzhi remain unmarried because she loved Mu Sheng? For nearly twenty years, she wrote letters and sent money to Mu Sheng's wife in China, Shurou. Was it romantic love?  Was she simply transferring her feelings onto another woman? I see it differently. The brilliance of Dear You is that it does not portray Nanzhi as a woman hopelessly in love. If her actions were driven only by romantic love, it would have been almost impossible for her to devote eighteen years of her life to caring for the family of her so-called "love rival" without resentment. Nanzhi was not protecting her own love. She was protecting Mu Sheng's promise. She was not loyal to a man. She was loyal to Qing Yi (情义) . Perhaps she admired Mu Sheng.  Perhaps she respected him deeply. But the movie never allows her to cross the line into romance. Beca...

Why Am I Promoting this dialect movie  Dear You ? People often ask me, "You are a leadership and management trainer. Why do you keep recommending the movie Dear You ?" The answer is simple.  I am not promoting a movie. I am promoting some of the finest values of Chinese culture that deserve to be passed on to future generations. Dear You reminded me of three timeless values that many of us have gradually forgotten. 1. Qing Yi, Not Just Romance Many people think the movie is a love story.  I don't. To me, it is a story about Qing Yi (情义) . Nan Zhi helped Mu Sheng during his lifetime. Even after Mu Sheng passed away, she continued writing letters and sending money to his wife in China for nearly twenty years. What makes this extraordinary is that Nan Zhi never fell in love with Mu Sheng. Their relationship was never romantic. It was built on trust, responsibility and Qing Yi. Today, many people believe that a man and a woman cannot have a deep relationship without romance....

Why has *Dear You* become such an extraordinary phenomenon? People are not simply watching the movie. They feel they have a stake in it. The film spreads almost entirely through word of mouth. Many people return to the cinema to watch it a second or even third time. That rarely happens because of clever marketing. It happens because people see part of their own lives reflected on the screen. They remember someone they once loved. Someone they lost. Someone they never had the chance to thank. Someone they wish they had spent more time with. The movie is not telling someone else's story. It is reminding us of our own. That is why audiences cry. Not because the story is sad, but because it awakens feelings that have been buried beneath the busyness of modern life. Love,  Loss,  Distance,  Care,  Gratitude,  Connection,  Courage. These are not just emotions. They are what make us human. In a world where AI is becoming increasingly intelligent, we often ask what...

Looks Fade, Wealth Fluctuates, but Only One Thing Determines How Far a Relationship Will Go We live in a world that often teaches us to choose partners based on short-term indicators. Is he attractive? Is she successful? How much does he earn? Will he make me look good in front of others? These questions may matter at the beginning of a relationship, but they become far less important when life unfolds over decades. Because every meaningful relationship is, in reality, a long game. And in every long game, the rules are different. In short-term games, people can pretend. They can impress. They can hide their flaws and exaggerate their strengths. After all, if there is no expectation of a future together, there is little incentive to be completely authentic. But long-term relationships reveal everything. Time has a way of exposing character. Pressure has a way of revealing integrity. Difficulties have a way of uncovering what lies beneath the surface. The person who appeared perfect duri...

Love Intelligence is simple: Care. Courage. Connection. Yet many relationships become confusing, chaotic, and even deceptive because these three qualities are used wrongly. 1. When Care loses its boundaries, it becomes control. "I only want what's best for you" becomes an attempt to tell the other person how to live. 2, When Courage loses its wisdom, it becomes attack. "I'm just being honest" becomes criticism, blame, and hurtful words. 3. When Connection loses its independence, it becomes dependency. "I can't live without you" becomes fear, clinginess, and the loss of self. This is why many relationships suffer. Care turns into control. Courage turns into conflict. Connection turns into dependency. And love slowly turns into confusion, chaos, and cheating—not necessarily cheating with another person, but cheating ourselves by hiding our true feelings and pretending everything is fine. True Love Intelligence is different. It is: Care without co...

Why I Chose Love Intelligence People often tell me: "Andy, don't waste time on topics that don't make money." They say the hottest topics today are AI, TikTok marketing, automation, and the latest technology. I understand where they are coming from. In fact, I teach AI myself. But after years of studying business, leadership, human behavior, Chinese wisdom, and technology, I have come to a simple conclusion: Behind every successful application of AI, marketing, leadership, sales, or management lies one invisible force: Love Intelligence. AI can generate content. TikTok can generate views. Marketing can generate leads. But none of them can generate trust. Only people can. And trust is built through Care, Courage, and Connection. That is why I continue to focus on Love Intelligence. Not because it is the easiest path. Not because it is the most popular topic. But because I believe it is the most important one. The more I study Love Intelligence, the mo...

Service excellence is collapsing everywhere. Customers are more demanding, staff are overwhelmed, and complaints are rising. If your team is still relying on cold, rigid SOPs to handle tension, you are burning out your people and losing your customers. In a landscape of tighter budgets and lean teams, pressure isn't slowing down—it's increasing. Yet one truth remains completely unchanged: People will forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Think about a standard frontline meltdown. A customer is shouting, a team member is getting defensive, and the entire atmosphere turns toxic. Traditional customer service training tells your staff to "follow the script." But scripts don't calm human anger, they infuriate it. When a Singapore healthcare frontline team faced skyrocketing friction, they threw out the rigid scripts and activated Love Intelligence (LQ) . By s hifting from "doing service" to truly being of service through hea...

For a long time, people believed intelligence meant logic, memory, and reasoning. Who could calculate faster. Who could analyze better. Who could solve problems more efficiently. But AI is now doing all of that, faster than most humans ever could. So the real question becomes: If machines can reason, what exactly makes human intelligence unique? The uncomfortable truth is this: Much of what we call “intelligence” in human society is actually the ability to navigate, influence, predict, and sometimes outsmart other minds. A large part of human intelligence is not pure truth. It is strategy. That is why deception sits so close to intelligence. The smarter someone is, the more capable they are of manipulating perception. People can use intelligence to: persuade without sincerity perform without authenticity signal virtue without living it gain trust without deserving it And now AI is beginning to do the same. AI can mimic empathy. Simulate confidence. Generate...

A parent lied about an address to get a child into a “better” school. Why? Because of love? Yes. But also because of fear. Fear of losing out. Fear that “if I don’t do this, my child will fall behind.” This is where most people get it wrong. They think: “If I’m doing this for my child, it must be right.” But Love Intelligence is not just about intention. It is about alignment between care, courage, and truth . In this case: There is care (wanting the best for the child) But there is no courage (to accept the system, or find another path) And there is a break in integrity and connection (lying, bending rules) So this is not Love Intelligence at its highest. This is love mixed with fear . Real Love Intelligence would look different: It would ask: “What kind of example am I setting for my child?” “Am I teaching them to win… or to win at all costs?” “Will this decision make them stronger, or just more dependent on shortcuts?” Sometimes the hardest tr...