A Team Effort

All of you would have heard of IQ and EQ right? What about AQ?

I’ve mentioned several times about being a climber. This term was coined by Paul Stoltz in his Adversity Quotient (AQ) theory which studies how people respond to events in life, especially in times of stress. In his theory, he said we are all quitters, campers or climbers.

Quitters are people with low AQ who despair and give up easily whenever they are challenged in their lives. Campers are people who will climb to a certain height in life, decide they do not want anymore challenges and set up camp there. Climbers are optimistic people who will keep scaling new heights in life, never giving up even though they have failed many times over.

80% of people are campers, according to Stoltz. The rest are quitters and climbers. So what are you? I believe all of you here are high AQ climbers like me. We all face setbacks and failures in life but we pick ourselves up, recuperate from our injuries and resume with our climb each time, right? We may envision to scale different peaks but we would never give up on our aspirations and aims in life because we are all positive thinkers.

I am sure many of you have seen quitters in your life. Even among the rich and famous we see them. Why? Because these people fail to realise that the expedition in life requires a team effort.

No matter how strong we think we are, emotionally or physically, there will always be moments when we will stumble and fall, get hurt so badly, we have difficulty getting up by ourselves. At times like these, if someone happens to be there to lend a hand, to help us up, do grab hold of that hand to pull yourself up.

We are all in this expedition together. I may be a beacon to some of you now, shedding some light on your path, to help you see certain parts of your route better. But I too will need you to shine the light on my path at some point in time of my life.

Do allow me to shelter you from the scorching sun or the thunder storm out there and do offer me the much need drink when you see me being dehydrated. Most importantly, don’t ever give up on youself because I will never leave you behind, no matter how tough the expedition is.

We are a high AQ team, right?