AQ is a new concept that deals with how to improve your capacity to bounce back from adversities. It can be measured and improved.

1. ADVERSITY QUOTIENT
A New Breakthrough Towards Your
Life Success
Khaled Bekhet

2. IQ = Intelligence Quotient
EQ = Emotional Quotient
AQ =
ADVERSITY QUOTIENT

3. Adversity Quotient (AQ)
My thoughts are guided by, Dr. Paul G. Stoltz,
The founder of AQ

4. What is adversity?
When things do not go the way you
want them to.

5. Answer out loud: Are things becoming…
Predictable or uncertain?
Organized or chaotic?
Faster or slower?
Easier or tougher?
Simpler or more complex?
More or less demanding?

6. WHAT IS
EMPOWERMENT?
Its about being
Willing
Able
and
Allowed

7. What is AQ
• AQ is about how you respond to life, esp. the
tough stuff
• A gauge or measure of how you respond &
deal with everything, from everyday hassles to the
big adversities that life can spring on you
• An established science, theory, and approach
for becoming measurably more resilient.
• The more resilient you are, the more effectively &
constructively you respond to….

8. Success Begins With Resiliency

9. What is resiliency?

10. RESILIENCY
1. The power or ability to return to the
original form or position after being bent,
stretched, compressed, or stretched;
elasticity.
2. The ability to recover readily from
adversity, illness, or the like.

11. QUITTERS
CAMPERS
CLIMBERS

12. Core Human Drive:
TO ASCEND

13. WHY MAY I
NOT BE WILLING TO CLIMB?

14. • Blame circumstances
for their lot in life
• Ignore their full potential
• Are bitter and
disappointed
• Do just enough to get by
• Take few risks
• Are resentful of those
who ascend
QUITTERS

15. •Only achieve partial success
•They live compromised lives
•They fall short of their true ability
•They dedicate energy and resources to
maintain the status quo
CAMPERS

16. CLIMBERS
Have a strong
faith in
something
bigger than
themselves

17. Regardless of
background,
advantages,
good fortune,
misfortune….
They continue
to climb

18. SOMETIMES…..
They grow weary
They have doubts
They feel lonely and
bruised
They question their
struggle

19. They recognise
that even
small steps
pay dividends

20. ONLY CLIMBERS
LIVE LIFE
TO THE FULL!!

21. Direct link between
how one responds to
adversity & mental
& physical health
Brain is ideally
equipped to form
habits
- Habits can be
instantly
interrupted &
changed
We respond to
adversity in
subconscious,
consistent
patterns
- If unchecked, these
patterns remain
stable over one’s entire
life

22. CONTROLC
O
R
E
OWNERSHIP
REACH
ENDURANCE
The CORE of AQ

23. THE TOOLS CORE
Questions• CONTROL: The extent to which someone
perceives they can influence whatever
happens next
• OWNERSHIP: The likelihood that someone
will actually do anything to improve the
situation, regardless of their formal
responsibilities?

24. THE TOOLS CORE
Questions• REACH: The extent to which someone
perceives an adversity will “reach into” and
affect other aspects of the situation or
beyond.
• ENDURANCE: The length of time the
individual perceives the situation / adversity
will last, or endure.

27. The LEAD Sequence

28. What are you going to do
differently, from today – to start
being a climber?

29. Thank you to Dr. Stoltz who taught me the
meaning of how to climb and who let me use
some of his
wonderful notes in his books.
Thanks also goes to those people in the
photos .Some of the other photographs I have
used I found through Google Images and I
hope that the owners will see how beautifully
they illustrate my points. They have not been
used in any way for commercial gain.
Khaled Bekhet, May, 2013