This book reveals a scientific formula for achieving maximum professional and personal performance. Positive Intelligence, measured as PQ , gives readers the tools to unleash their intellectual power (IQ) and their emotional energy (EQ). Based on extensive scientific research and field-testing, PQ destroys the inhibitors that block mental acuity while nurturing the process of constructive thought. Builds brainpower ten seconds at a time. Author Shirzad Chamine has developed a series of simple yet immediately beneficial techniques to quickly boost mental performance. Readers learn how to identify the "saboteurs" that create negative thinking, employ "sage" skills, and use ten-second exercises to develop fully functional PQ brain muscles. Designed by a successful engineer turned executive coach. The author combines the hard skills of a scientist with the soft skills of humanist in his presentation of groundbreaking PQ concepts. His background in technology and psychiatry gives him an authoritative voice that will instil confidence in even the most sceptical reader.