Welcome everyone, I'm your host Greg McEwan and I'm here with you on this journey to learn

how to make our highest contribution.

Have you ever felt you had more life experience and talent than your job requires or even

allows you to use?

Today I've invited Soren Kaplan to the show to talk about how you can better tap into

that experience yourself and also in the people around you.

I've long believed that what we know about other people is less valuable than what we don't

know, that there's an enormous amount of potential under the surface, what's not on

someone's resume, what's not in their current job title, and our ability to mine that experience

in ourselves and in other people is Kaplan believes a predictor of our success.

First we had IQ, then we had emotional intelligence, EQ, this is XQ, experiential intelligence.

Let's get to it.

If you want to learn faster, understand more deeply and increase your influence, teach

the ideas in this podcast episode to someone else within the next 24 to 48 hours.

Soren, welcome.

Thanks Greg, good to be here.

How are you?

I'm doing great.

It's great to be on your podcast.

I just listened to you and Amy Edmondson talking about psychological safety, so I think

we're going to have some good riff on that as what caught your attention from that conversation.

Well, you know, if you want to get connected to your own experiences and what shaped you

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