Title: The Role of Adversity Quotient in Dealing with Everyday Challenges | Psychreg
Headings: The Role of Adversity Quotient in Dealing with Everyday Challenges
The Role of Adversity Quotient in Dealing with Everyday Challenges
Content: It is also an established science, theory, and approach for becoming measurably more resilient. The more resilient you are, the more effectively and constructively you respond to life’s difficulties – and the more fulfilling life becomes. When it comes to dealing with everyday challenges, or even a catastrophic one, I think AQ is a more powerful coping mechanism than IQ. PEAK Learning describes AQ as the bedrock of human endeavour and claims that enhancing AQ can result in gains in productivity, capacity, performance, innovation and morale. And the good news is that just like IQ, AQ could also be improved. One tip that I have come across with about enhancing our AQ is through getting feedback from people. Also, Todd Mayfield advises to ‘pray and process about what adverse circumstances drag you down. Think through how you can interrupt your fixed response patterns. Left unchecked, these patterns will remain with you for a lifetime.’ Mayfield’s advice makes sense because by getting feedback from other people we learn how to ‘polish’ ourselves, and makes us better in coping with the next challenges that we will face.