saboteurs are in these two different-- there's a grid of these nine saboteurs and that the two dimensions are motivation--
judge saboteur . What this judge saboteur said to help me survive was, "Hey buddy, your parents are actually perfect beings.
we call this inner saboteur .
what the saboteur gets you, and the style with which that saboteur gets you, that thing that you're looking for.
If the saboteur is your internal enemy, I what do we do with criminals?
that thought as saboteur and let go, instead of trusting it or pursuing it, because now you know it's your enemy.
And the saboteurs are things that get into your head.
And basically what the saboteurs are, they are the agents of your survival brain.
And the saboteurs come in to help make sure that you survive both physically and emotionally.
And most saboteurs start very early, so we are unconscious of them.
I also had other saboteurs .
I don't know why that saboteur seems to be stronger in women.
So it wasn't really about saboteurs or spies.
So to tell you about saboteurs , let me use a picture, not numbers.
The reason we get them is that saboteurs are actually our agents of survival.
that I really needed my saboteurs to come and help me survive.
And the reason I have the look that the saboteur brings you, and this is a dramatic look that the saboteur brings, is
But notice that once this construct of the judge saboteur started telling me, "Shirzad, you're a loser.
Once again, the judge saboteur 's saying, "Well, Shirzad, you're a loser, but then don't worry.
And I have no idea that I have this strong judge saboteur .
And that gets us-- so that's how you weaken your saboteur .
The second strategy-- remember the first strategy was weaken your saboteur .
We can also measure the relative strength of your saboteurs versus the sage.
Now notice the emotions that get generated by the saboteurs and the survival brain.
All of these things that come with the saboteurs end up happening.
If your positive intelligence is the relative strength of your saboteurs versus sage, then obviously weakening your saboteurs , weakening the bad guys, is one way to increase
And what had happened to me was the saboteurs .
Now, saboteurs are not initially the bad guys.
minutes you can get a bar chart of your saboteurs .
And the sage perspective is a radical departure from how your saboteurs have do you deal with life's challenges and difficulties.
And that's the moment where I realized that I had this rude little judge saboteur .
And I did some research in this work and finally realized there are altogether 10 saboteurs , the judge being the masters saboteur .
They were arrested not because the government found them personally to be saboteurs , but because they were citizens of the country that we were suddenly
By the way, there are 10 saboteurs altogether.
Now I'm going to tell you the story of how my saboteurs came into my life and helped me survive.
I have not yet found a population that is not significantly hampered by the saboteurs .
In the book there are other strategies for how to weaken your saboteurs .
So the way you measure this positive intelligence quotient or PQ is the percentage of time you are in sage mode versus your saboteur modes.
In order to keep them perfect, I needed this saboteur that began to come into my mind, which I later called it the
Then the question is, which other saboteur do you have?
And the reason I want you to do that is that one of the key ways that we want you to weaken your saboteur is this.
So ultimately, you want to create a "Wanted" poster for your saboteur -- what's its name, what's its habits, what's its characteristics, what's its belief systems.
So just notice the difference between me saying "I am going to fail tomorrow" versus "My pesky judge saboteur says I'm
Sometime in your childhood, I'll get into more detail about where the heck do these saboteurs come from.
But since she's not here I can tell you, she has her saboteurs too.
One of the things that's measurable about positive intelligence is that you can actually measure the strength of your saboteurs .
The first strategy is, hey, weaken your saboteurs .
Now what I want to show you is what we all used to look like before saboteurs started messing with us.
So if you're a lady, this is what you used to look like before saboteurs started messing with you.
they too at this stage of their life, this is before saboteurs .