Digital Social Hour
IQ vs EQ: The Hidden Key to Business Success | Andy Triana DSH #903
Tue, 19 Nov 2024
🧠 Discover the powerful relationship between IQ and EQ in business success! In this eye-opening episode, performance expert Andy Triana reveals why the intersection of emotional and intellectual intelligence could be the key to unlocking your true potential. Ever wonder why some super-geniuses struggle in business while others with average IQ thrive? Andy shares fascinating insights from his work with hedge fund executives and pro athletes, explaining how the balance of EQ and IQ determines your real capabilities. You'll learn why having extremely high IQ isn't always an advantage and how emotional intelligence plays a crucial role in business success. From groundbreaking research on cognitive performance to practical strategies for optimizing your mental capabilities, this conversation is packed with game-changing insights. Andy breaks down complex concepts into actionable wisdom, sharing real examples from his extensive experience working with high-performers across various industries. Whether you're an entrepreneur, business leader, or anyone looking to maximize their potential, this episode reveals the hidden factors that truly drive success. Learn about the surprising truth behind intelligence testing, discover how to leverage both IQ and EQ for better results, and understand why balance is the key to peak performance. Ready to transform your approach to business and personal growth? Don't miss this powerful discussion about the real drivers of success in today's business world. 🚀 Email: [email protected] #sportsperformanceoptimization #eq #personaldevelopment #athletedietarychoices #leadership CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:32 - Andy's Recent Projects 02:19 - Data and Analytics in Competition 05:30 - Intersection of EQ and IQ 13:17 - Latest Research Studies 16:39 - Strategies to Increase Intelligence 19:59 - Enhancing Cognition Techniques 22:27 - Vision Improvement Drills 24:38 - Benefits of Breath Work 26:31 - Importance of Random Physical Activity 27:56 - Understanding Memory Loss 33:17 - Health Tests and Biomarkers 36:11 - Connecting with Andy APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Andy Triana https://www.instagram.com/gosuperbrain/ https://linktr.ee/gosuperbrain LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the intersection of IQ and EQ in business?
I have a patent pending in the food science world that has to do with protein and optimizing it. And I'm doing a lot of like just quote unquote nerd stuff right now, scientific advising. But as always, sports performance and looking at the vision, information processing portion and sensory motor aspect of the brain has always been my hot topic in sports.
Yeah, let's dive with the patent first. So what are you trying? You probably can't spill the beans on it.
No, no, I can spill the beans because we have some stuff going on. The patentable portion is an algorithmic equation I created with some software in which I could take your standard amino acid breakdown of a gram of protein. In the US, it's typically 18 amino acids. You plug in your information and it spits out an optimized form.
Because essentially, especially in the early 2000s, when bodybuilding was kind of really taking a lot of hold on the nutrition world and supplement world, it was all about leucine, driving more anabolism through mTOR and these very specific things. And- Biology is overarchingly a balancing act. When people ask me about health, I tell them the answer is synergy, not anything in particular.
And we disrupted the balancing act of protein. And of course, these ripples into modern day proteins and the foods we consume today are unbalanced to a degree that we're unlikely to be in protein synthesis as long as we think we are due to some limiting factors. And my algorithm hopefully corrects for that.
Nice. That sounds intense, man.
Yeah, it's a wordy, but in reality, just think about a seesaw. The optimal biological outcome is a balanced seesaw. And anytime you unbalance that seesaw, there's pros and cons that come into play. And the amount of time you spend unbalanced is really the deleterious issue. So I take that philosophy and I kind of applied it to food, sports, and I've applied it to a few things.
Nice. So sports performance, were you an athlete growing up?
Yeah, I did wrestling growing up. I did all the basic sports. I really, really loved Strongman though. And that happened when I got to college. There was a team that we had that did so and a great gym setup. And that got me into the world of skill because Strongman, if you're familiar, is like lifting the rocks and cars and all the events are different, every single competition.
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Chapter 2: How can you optimize your intelligence?
There's heavyweights and they have a kind of their separate contest from everyone else. Everyone else is still involved in the sport, but with like licensing, copyright and TV rights, they're kind of separated.
Got it. You were competing in that.
Yeah, I did 90 kilogram, a little bit of 80 kilogram, but I was most successful at 90. On my first Worlds, I took fifth. Wow. And it's funny how life changes. At the time, I was so displeased with it because I felt like I underperformed for what I was capable of.
Chapter 3: What strategies enhance cognitive performance?
But now that it's been probably six years, I see it so differently, especially working with athletes at the pro level quite often who have incredible talent and still get upset about something going wrong. I saw myself in them a little bit.
And I was like, wow, it's so easy to feel that way and have the world look at you and be like, but you did X, Y, and Z be happy, but that's not what they're feeling. Everyone's reality is so individual. It's easy to believe even with your best friends that your realities are kind of similar in, you know, not to use the same word in reality. They're probably not, you know, pun intended.
Yeah. That's crazy to think about actually, but everyone's in their own world in a way.
Yeah. Like, so you have coffee, the guy next to you has coffee. That's different. And even if you have coffee on Monday, it's different than having coffee on Tuesday for you. Our whole life functions this way, and oftentimes we overlook that.
Right. Were you using a lot of data and analytics when you were competing at the time?
Somewhere in between. I think the intersection between data and humanics is where sports and life most successfully tends to occur. Because if you get too data-driven, you can't see the difference between two small facts.
And if you get too humanics driven to in your head, if you will, feelings driven, you also are subservient to potentially, you know, feeling something that's not real, a lie or a fleeting emotion and making decisions based on it. So I think somewhere in the middle for everyone is most successful.
I have some athletes that they don't measure anything, but we'll make up a test for them to give them some semblance of objectivity. And I have some athletes that love numbers and have intense Excel sheets and that's how they function.
Right. So you need both.
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Chapter 4: What are the effects of stress on IQ?
Yeah, totally. That's why it's a weird number. It's like, what's your average heart rate? You know, it's like, well, you know what I mean? And it's more of a gauge for, I guess, how far off your baseline you are. So if we were, let's say, a scenario we were working together, and you're like, Andy, I'm feeling stressed. I did an IQ test. It's low.
It's more likely to be that your stress manifests in cognition rather than seeing it maybe in your heart rate or your gut. Because some people get stressed, and they're the same in between the ears, but their gut's ruined. You know, whatever it may be.
Yeah, I just took a heart rate test two days ago and my average beats were 59, but it was only 10 minutes, but it ranged from 47 to 77. And they noticed when I picked up my phone, it hit 77. Isn't that crazy?
Not surprising. So your heart rate actually gets more consistent the more excited you are. So when your heart rate's above 100, it's like very metronome-like. And when your heart rate is below 100, it's less metronome-like. And that's one of the things that HRV, the score on the whoop and all that stuff, attempts to describe.
But it should go up because everyone wants to believe that if you can operate like a monk all day, you'll be very healthy. But monks purposely avoid things intervening with their life. Dopamine detox, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, not even a detox. It's a way of living for them. They're not detoxing from anything. You know what I mean? They just live that way.
Whereas for us, we are culturally bound to stress. You know what I mean? Think about it. It's always grind, grind, grind, do more, do more, do more. And sure, that's a wonderful thing. It's created everything, all this, right? But that has perils to it because you're now associating stress with a positive, right?
And not that it deserves connotation at all, but then all of a sudden that's how you get to how did I get here scenarios. Like everything was going so good and all of a sudden X happened. That's a philosophical problem more so than a biological problem oftentimes.
Right. How are you dealing with stress? Are there ways to mitigate it?
Yeah. So it's funny. I just had a little bit of a humbling experience. Really? I travel a lot. Yeah. And I got gut parasites. Whoa. I've never had any gut issue traveling. And to put it in perspective, I'm 29 now. I've been traveling internationally for work since I was 23. Mm-hmm. I got a little lazy. I didn't bring the same things I bring with me typically to an event. I was open to more foods.
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Chapter 5: How do personal experiences influence cognitive abilities?
I made a whole movie about that.
Yeah. Limitless, right? Yeah.
Limitless. Yeah. So that's actually true. That's crazy.
Yeah. But you got to look at it the right way. You know, it's not like, can we unlock it? It's that the brain is so superb at managing experiences, decision-making and all this other stuff that it can do it without you having to be aware of it. You know, like you don't got to think about breathing. They say that one of the worst diseases in humanity is Anden's curse.
It's an inability of the brain to breathe automatically.
oh right that sounds terrible like no one's really made it past 13 or 14 i believe holy crap yeah i mean you typically die of psychosis or falling asleep and passing out or something related yeah because we're just automatic breathing right now not even thinking about it how would you ever like or even your glucose levels your heart rate like if you had to focus on that you would never make it through life right you wouldn't even come close damn that's crazy yeah wow there's a lot of interesting stuff you're studying any any recent things you're looking into right now
I think the power of micro-dosed exercise, especially because in the last two years, that's why I'm sweating. I just got some micro-dosed exercise done off the plane. Yeah, I got off the plane, went straight to micro-dosed exercise. Because my point is we all think we have to go to the gym and work our hardest. They're kind of saying everything's got to be so intense.
If you go for a run, run until you're dead. My last two years, I haven't been able to exercise and train as normal. I do think micro dosing of compounds has other usage, but I think an eight minute run, 10 med ball throws, five or six reps of deadlift done really, really fast has so much more return than we give ourselves credit for, especially in the world of feeling good.
Might not be the same for professional athletes, but I have felt fantastic doing 30, 20 or less minute workouts, but just very synergistically planned what I need to do.
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Chapter 6: What role does micro-dosing exercise play in health?
Oh, you did?
Like quite a large amount of my poop was dead worms.
Damn.
Yeah. It wasn't like I saw a couple like, you know, not to get it was like a third of my feces.
Holy shit. So you are willing to go the pharmaceutical route.
I'm loyal to what gets the outcome. I'm not loyal to systems too often.
Got it.
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Chapter 7: How can you balance a fast-paced lifestyle?
So I have athletes, like I said, that like, hey, you know, I just want to chill, do breathing stuff. And this is how I interpret the world in sports. And that's the plan I create for them. So people who view the world quite differently, how could we expect the same plan, medical advice or anything to be the same for them?
A bowl of cereal or a cup of coffee is not even the same for you two days in a row.
That's true. Yeah, we'll dive into your athletes. First, I want to talk about the talk hosts. So you manage some people that are talking for, what, six to eight hours at a time?
Yeah, or more. Speech is its own trainable thing. I have a cool little Nootropics user manual, I called it, on Mark Bell's Power Project website. And it's kind of like when you get a new video game or something you've never played before as a kid, you read the user manual. What does the A button do? What does the B button do? That's what I created the Nootropics user manual for.
Help you learn about yourself and learn about the Nootropics as well. So when it comes to like kind of all that stuff, it's figuring out what fits your approach. And it turns out the best ones tend to be choline related as far as using it often as much as you need. And I'll get a little off topic here. And the nootropics can be quite cool as well when they're specifically paired up with speech.
So I gave speech protocols, creativity protocols, and I believe visual acuity protocols. It's been like two years since I wrote it in that user manual and learning about if The talk you're giving and the information you're presenting is really in-depth. Sometimes I do really nerdy stuff. You have to slow it down because the nature of what you're presenting requires increased amount of processing.
Whereas maybe if you're speaking like a Tony Robbins, Gary Brekka, and you're breaking your information down to small chunks, you can go faster and have that messianic voice because they're compressed little nuggets. You know, it's the same. I talk to people who educate.
If you use a PowerPoint versus a podcast versus writing, it's different in what information can optimally be presented and how they're going to remember things. I think the art of the conversation has been lost.
And that's one of the things I'm grateful for social media, because we learn far better from conversations and real human interactions than we do from like the first time you learned algebra. Oh, absolutely.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of using pharmaceutical solutions?
No. Right. Like think about like the hard subjects in high school or middle school. You ask a friend, they tell you a couple of weird things and you're, oh, that's all it is. You know, it's not that your friend knows it better in the teacher. It's the way you're cognitively set up.
Have you seen ways to increase intelligence at all?
Absolutely. Really? Yeah. I think it's one of those things that starts with thinking that it's like just math is intelligence. Intelligence is a way of looking at the world. So what we see when we talk about the differentiation between two small facts, so the difference between 59% and 60%, when you're in school, it's like an F or a D. And that's really, really broad, right?
It's so different, even though it's 1%. One of the traits of most intelligent people is they can tell the difference between two small facts. They can differentiate very well. And one of the other things that's a common trait of highly intellectual individuals is they can think of multiple ways to get the same answer. And when we see that, I can talk about the research aspect of it.
You realize that that has nothing to do necessarily with knowing math. It's a chef who can think of deconstructing a hamburger seven different ways. It's the parent who can deal with a high-functioning child and a low-functioning child and teach the same morals and ethics to their kids. And that's really what intelligence is. It's much closer to meeting someone in the middle.
So I have a nonprofit that I'm going to publicly announce to everyone next year that's based on visual motor function for the ASD population as a proxy for improving cognition. What's ASD? Autism Spectrum Disorder. Got it. So looking at what... the most prevalent research in the vision world for autism spectrum disorder.
I think that the proprietary information I do with a lot of pro athletes in their eyes has incredible transfer. And I've brought a board that helps us look at the autism spectrum developmental model through a lens of vision and changing the brain as their proxy for improving cognition and communication, not just sending them to speech pathologists or speech therapy and
and doing typical communication drills. I think if we approached it through a brain architecture standpoint, that there can be more progress to be made.
Yeah, autism is an interesting one because there's people that can really hone in on it and actually make it like a weapon.
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