The ESQ - Ari Ginanjar Agustian

The ESQ Power – Ari Ginanjar Agustian

We might have already familiar with the ESQ Power concept ed by Ari Ginanjar Agustian. To make an easy understanding I will call ESQ Power as Ari's concept. First time i read the Ari's book I feel so surprise with ari's concept. The impression which was emerged in my mind was a creative, unique, and smart one. In my opinion, Ari's concept tried to combine between psychology and Islam. At that moment i supposed that Ari Ginanjar was a trend setter of the new way of thinking. If we take a look for awhile that few people in Indonesia could be a trend setter or most of Indonesian are a follower. However,here Ari can be a trend setter of thoughts. Objectively i admire him as a good pioneer.

In first chapter of his book he tries to review about the obsolete idea of IQ. He mentions that IQ not anymore being the most important gift. Deliberately i use the world “gift” to emphasize that most people in the old decades assumed IQ as the most precious blessing from God. When parents will have babies, most of them beg to God for having babies with higher IQ. It might that they hope to have babies with Einstein IQ level. Their thought are simple because if their children have high IQ so their lives will be easy. In other words, having high IQ can guarantee what future will be. The bright future could be reached as long as we have high IQ. I'm absolutely sure that until now most Indonesian still assume IQ as the important gift for their children.