AQR International Blog
The latest Innovations in Improving PerformanceOptimism and Mental Toughness
A key aspect of mental toughness that, when added to Resilience, elevates it to a more useful concept. Naom Chomsky is one of the great thinkers of our time. He is provocative in that he makes you stop and think about things that you might take for granted or simply...
35 Years and Counting – What’s Next?
I founded AQR International on January 1st, 1989, in the middle of a recession. In my last post of 2023, I reflected on the changes since then. Sometimes it felt as though we were in a permanent recession. Where once we were a consultancy working directly with...
35 Years of Progress – Still Growing. Still Learning.
Founded in 1989 as TCA Consultants, in January AQR International will reach 35 years of existence. Given that the average life of a UK company is around 7 years, we feel a degree of comfort from that. We must have done something right? Like any business, we have had...
ChatGPT, AI and Mental Toughness
A valuable perspective. It may not be all that is claimed for it. Noam Chomsky, writing in the New York Times in March 2023 sought to put AI and particularly the hysteria around ChatGPT into some sort of perspective. "The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a...
This audio is from Chapter 8 of A Thriving Mind: A Practical Guide to Developing Resilience and Positivity in Young Children by Dorien van ‘t Ende and Maria Lawless AQR INT · UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING THROUGH TRAUMA, ADVERSITY AND LOSS
This is an audio article from Chapter 6 of Coaching for Self-Awareness About Attitude and Mindset by Zoltán Csigás AQR INT · Coaching The Outliers – How to Approach Unusual Cases When Working with the MTQ