Speaker Ezgi Demir
High-IQ individuals often struggle with mental noise, analysis paralysis, and cognitive overload. The paradox is intelligence vs. clarity and why more thinking doesn’t always mean better solutions. Mindfulness emerges as a key performance tool, not as passive relaxation but as an active method to optimize focus, decision-making, and emotional regulation.
By cultivating presence-driven intelligence, you can transcend habitual overthinking and access deeper states of awareness, clarity, and strategic insight.
This session introduces the Holistic Quotient (HQ©), a unique framework integrating intellect, emotion, and creativity to enhance mental clarity, adaptability, and innovation. Examining the brain’s dual-processing system reveals how the left hemisphere’s logical structure and the right hemisphere’s intuitive creativity interact. Through ambidextrous drawing, participants experience a hands-on demonstration of cognitive balance, fostering the ability to shift seamlessly between structured thinking and creative flow.
An interactive flow experiment will guide participants through techniques that silence internal noise while enhancing cognitive flexibility. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of how to apply HQ principles in their personal and professional lives—improving performance, reducing stress, and unlocking their full intellectual and creative potential.
By embracing mindfulness, creativity, and the above-thinking stage, participants will gain a new perspective: thinking less but perceiving more, allowing intelligence to operate not just at full capacity but with true clarity and flow.
©HQ Note: The Holistic Quotient (HQ) is a framework integrating logic, emotion, and creativity for peak cognitive performance, originally developed by Ezgi Demir.
This talk will take place on the first floor of the University Centre for Student Life (room 1.24 / 1.25)