QUOTIENT HOUR

Humanity has always been in a quest for quantifying wisdom or intelligence. Ancient Indian traditions had their own ingenious tool where one’s intelligence was commensurate to the ‘how many thousands of Sanskrit shlokas’ one knew. In Oriental civilizations, the more the number of symbols one knew of their script, higher he was placed in pedantic echelons. There were secret societies in the western world as Masons, Templars, Kabbalah, KKK etc. which had rings within the organization. Only the worthy with substantial grey matter & occult knowledge deserved to get into these inner rings which were again the symbol of mental competency.
Then in the latter half of the 19th century a German psychologists William Stern came up with something called ‘Intelligence Quotient’. It was a battery of tests designed to assess the workability of a human brain. Soon it had a universal acceptance Intelligence quotient or IQ was now something which indubitably categorized human brains into various stratas. Justifiably Einsteins & Bohrs showed higher IQ of 140’s as compared to their normal counterparts All over the world, the much coveted jobs in KCB, CIA, CERN etc. demanded a high IQ as prerequisite.

But it took almost a century after the genesis of IQ, to realize that our cerebral potential cannot alone be judged by IQ there are various other things to a brain other than unidirectional reasoning & logical thinking It was realized that aesthetics, spirituality sentiments etc. too are as vital This ideology led to diversification of IQ. First came EQ (Emotional Quotient), it was & is most commonly discussed in HR circles. A person is supposed to have a good amount of EQ for his proper functioning in an organization or the society.
It was as if a whole new avenue of knowledge opened. Soon there was SQ (Social Quotient) which decided how socially responsible you are. Following came MQ (Moral quotient) calling us to be more virtuous. Then came the era of environment awareness & everyone was scaled on the two new litmus tests CQ (carbon Quotient) & GQ (Green Quotient), the more the GQ the more responsible and aware you are about your planet. Ensuing these two came EnQ (Energy Quotient). The industries & corporates who had a bent on saving energy & its effective utilization considered ENQ as one of their priorities. Your AQ (Adversity Quotient) shows how stoic & inure you stand to the hardships whereas the NQ (Networking Quotient) reflects on your interpersonal skills & the contacts you have built up. Creative fellows you don’t have to be disappointed, there is CQ (Creative Quotient) for u.
American Football is to Americans what Cigarettes are to the French. So there is FQ (Football Quotient). Even the US president craves for a good FQ. It’s much-touted affair. For all the techies (read software engineers) who succumb to the work load (read get bored of doing nothing), online games are no less than Christmas gifts, with card games being the favorite. PQ (Poker Quotient) is something IT professionals are vying for. There can’t be a blessing more heavenly than Google for nerds & geeks. So, how effectively you Google your way to the required information is measured by your GQ (Google Quotient).
Now, your adrenaline stimulants like Scuba diving in Great Barrier Reef, Bungee jumping in Hoover or trekking Pyrenees won’t go unnoticed as they may help you improve your AQ (Adventure Quotient). If you have appetite for the finesse i.e. you relish Thai Prawns, Boardeux Cognac, own a Yatch , accessorize with Louis Vuitton & savor live Lambada performance, you are scaling super-high on LQ(Lifestyle Quotient).
The degree of awareness & performance in matter of Sex, Sexuality & Sexiness in measured by SQ (Sex Quotient). If you have seen the Castles in the Scotland, camped in Serengeti, rappelled in Grand Canyon, Kayaked in Borneo or kissed beneath Arc de Triumph you Score maximum in TQ (travel Quotient). But there is a thing which bothers me these days in my BQ (Blog Quotient). As a blogger, you are expected to know what to expect where & where to expect what. Anyways, I am working hard to improve it.
By the way I have discovered something new. I am thinking of introducing a new quotient in this already quotient–riddled world. What about QQ (Quotient Quotient), which is, how you are informed about already existing quotient. So what’s your QQ…?