Okay, I'm not trying to add another title to J.K. Rowling's
astoundingly successful series. I just want to use the main
characters to make a point. Still, if you don't want any
kind of clue as to how the last Harry Potter book ends,
then don't read this article.
Why did Harry always seem to get the best of his evil arch
nemesis, Lord Voldemort? I suggest that Harry had a fitter
brain.
In my last couple of posts, I started to introduce a
concept around variety in Brain Fitness, which I'm calling
EPIQ performance – standing for Emotional, Physical and
Intellectual intelligences (or Quotients). I say that the
Dark Lord Voldemort excelled in one of these but wasn't
very well balanced. Whereas Harry wasn't a star in any of
them but had a good balance of intelligences – and in the
end, that's what mattered more.
Voldemort was incredibly smart, he probably had an IQ score
through the roof. He was a great student and figured out
all kinds of stuff that others before him did not succeed
in doing. This helped him rise to power. But it wasn't
enough to keep him there.
He was fairly stupid when it came to emotional and physical
intelligence. Emotionally, he didn't connect very well with
others and he had a bit of a hard time controlling his
temper. He had a tendency to strike down anyone that didn't
see things quite his way. I'd say this ranks him pretty low
on the EQ front.
Physically – well, he did split his soul into 8 pieces (7
of them were deliberate). Not really the ideal health plan.
He didn't look that good – Bad skin and teeth. It didn't
appear that his metabolism was functioning optimally. I bet
his internal organs didn't look that good either, since he
spent about fifteen years nearly dead. So I give him a low
score on the PQ side as well.
On the other hand, Harry was a modest student – not the
best, not the worst. He probably had a reasonable IQ. But
he had a much greater EQ and PQ than his counterpart.
Although the books never really talked much about physical
health or nutrition, he was athletic (a great Quidditch
seeker), seemed to get a lot of exercise running around
escaping from near death situations, had a lot of friends,
and really connected with the people around him. So I'd say
his scores on those fronts would be fairly high.
People wanted to help Harry because they liked him, not
because they were afraid of him (there's probably a
managerial lesson in there somewhere). Harry was able to
understand things that Voldemort could not. He was able to
pull together his moderate strengths across a variety of
areas, where Voldemort really only excelled at one thing.
In the end, that mean't victory for Harry and defeat for
the Dark Lord. Harry's brain was fit and Voldemort's was
not.
It all comes back to variety. Brain Fitness is about
developing your skills on several fronts through a variety
of approaches – EPIQ performance.
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