FW: 7 Habits of Highly Defective People

Thanks.



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From: Collins, Monica P.

Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:35 PM

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I didn't know about losing the 50 IQ points, but I am familiar with the rest of it. My personal theory or take on it is that the more stressed a person is, the less the thinking and reasoning parts of our brains work, leaving the 'base' processes running the show. When I'm stressed/pissed/etc, all of my dime-store words leave my brain, and I have an inclination to punch people in the arm because I can't put words to the thoughts in my head at that moment. Lately, when I find myself getting too far into an argument, I try to get out of it before everything's gone, and I'm only left with 'yeah, well up yours!' because I couldn't think of a classier line to throw out.



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'Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.' Alexander Pope

'We are all here to do what we are all here to do. I'm interested in ... the future ... and the only way to get there is together.' - The Oracle




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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:34 AM

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Are you trying to tell us something?










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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:23 AM

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Subject: 7 Habits of Highly Defective People

I'm taking this course online today and ran across an interestingly true passage that everyone should remember. Definitely something to print and hang on the cork board in your office.



Defective people have a tendency to personalize issues. Rather than remembering to manage their hot buttons, they allow themselves to become emotionally hooked by events. The chief problem with this kind of behavior is that stress makes us stupid. It’s true. You may have heard the popular saying “under stress, we regress.” That’s true, and the reason that we regress is that when we get emotionally hooked, our IQ's actually drop.











Remarkably, studies show that our IQ's can drop by as much as 50 points when we are stressed out, irritated, harried or beleaguered!







That's quite a drop. Most of us cannot afford to lose that many IQ points and still be functioning effectively.