Mental Fitness (PQ)
the X-Factor in Performance & Happiness

If you’re physically fit, you can climb steep hills without physical stress.

If you’re mentally fit, you can handle life’s great challenges without mental stress or other negative emotions.

You’ll be happier and perform better.

Master Your Mind, Master Your Life

Positive Intelligence is the science and practice of developing mastery over your own mind so you can reach your full potential for both happiness and success.

Measuring Mental Fitness

Mental fitness is a measure of the strength of your positive mental muscles (Sage) versus the negative (Saboteur).

This measure of your Mental Fitness is called PQ (Positive Intelligence Quotient).

Research with 500,000 participants has shown PQ to be the best predictor of how happy you are and how well you perform relative to your potential.

Positive Intelligence

Positive Intelligence is based on Shirzad Chamine’s New York Times bestselling book, Stanford lectures, and breakthrough research work with hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams.

With greater mastery over your own mind, you can tackle your greatest challenges with calm, clarity, creativity, and laser focused action.

Take command of your mind, so you can activate it’s vastly unused powers to reach your untapped potential.

Research Foundation

This work is a synthesis of the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.

The research is the basis of Shirzad Chamine’s New York Times bestselling book Positive Intelligence, and Stanford lectures.

How You Self Sabotage | positiveintelligence.com

How You Self Sabotage

A key to Mental Fitness is to weaken the internal Saboteurs who generate all your “negativity” in the way they respond to challenges. Your Saboteurs cause all your stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, regret, shame, guilt, and unhappiness. Saboteurs include the Judge, Controller, Avoider, Victim, Stickler and 5 others.

Your “Sage” lives in an entirely different region of your brain and handles challenges in ways that produce positive emotions like curiosity, empathy, creativity, calm, and clear-headed laser-focused action. You’d perform better and feel happier.

How You Self Sabotage

Saboteurs are your invisible agents of self-sabotage. They represent your brain’s automatic mental habits with limiting beliefs and assumptions about how to handle life’s challenges. They include the Judge, Controller, Avoider, Victim, Stickler and 5 others.

Your Saboteurs cause all your stress, unhappiness and negative feelings. You can learn to meet your challenges by activating a different voice and region of your brain that performs far better while producing positive feelings like curiosity, empathy, creativity, and peace, with a laser focus on action.

How You Self Sabotage | positiveintelligence.com

Breakthrough Results of Boosting PQ

Performance: You perform better while working less hard—similar to athletes “in the zone.”

Happiness: You feel less stressed, more peace, and consistent happiness, even in tough times.

Relationships: You improve relationships, able to handle conflicts in ways that deepen trust and harmony.

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Webinar

How to Take Charge of Your Mind

Next Webinar: Tuesday January 26th at 1pm Pacific

Attend an upcoming free video webinar led by Shirzad Chamine on how to conquer your Saboteurs and take charge of your mind.

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PQ Training

Boosting your mental fitness requires building powerful new muscles in your brain, not just insight.

Combining weekly video sessions and an exclusive App, Shirzad Chamine guides you step-by-step over a six-week period to boost the 3 core muscles of mental fitness.

The increased grey matter in the “Sage” region of the brain is visible in MRI imaging within 8 weeks.

The experience is often described as lifechanging.

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Positive Intelligence training app | positiveintelligence.com

PQ Training

Taking charge of your mind requires building powerful new muscles in your brain, not just insight.

Combining weekly live virtual sessions and an exclusive App, Shirzad Chamine guides you step-by-step over a six-week period to build permanent new habits of your mind.

Learn More
Positive Intelligence training app | positiveintelligence.com

Lisa Stevens "Positive Intelligence has had a lasting and transformative impact on me and others in my organization." Lisa Stevens, Region President, Wells Fargo Bank Lisa Stevens, Region President, Wells Fargo Bank James White "Positive Intelligence can change your life and transform your business. A real gamechanger." James D. White, Chairman, President, and CEO, Jamba Juice Dean Morton "Most change initiatives fizzle because of our mental “Saboteurs.” Shirzad gives us the tools to conquer them and create positive change that lasts… a must for any individual or team serious about unleashing peak performance." Dean Morton, former COO, Hewlett-Packard Douglas R. Conant "Developing a personal leadership model is one of the most practical, energy-saving, and stress-reducing things that anyone can do for themselves. Leaders at every level can use the PQ approach to get, and stay, on a more ‘winning’ trajectory …usable, lively, and compelling." Douglas R. Conant, former CEO, Campbell Soup Company Crittenden Brookes "The PQ model provides a solid basis for bringing meaning and significant change to one's life. If you want to create major positive change in yourself, your team, or loved ones, read this book." Crittenden E. Brookes, MD, PhD, Stanford University Jim Lanzone "Working with Shirzad has had a profound impact on me. The tools and techniques to raise PQ are simple, concrete and pragmatic, yet incredibly effective. They help me remain focused on what truly matters and grounded amidst the swirl of daily life." Jim Lanzone, President, CBS Interactive (CBS Corporation) What Leaders Are Saying