Your Erroneous Zones

by Wayne W. Dyer

“Should I avoid doing the things I really want to do?” “Should I live my life as others want me to?”

Happiness and Your Own I.Q. Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly.

A truer barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.

If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it’s worth, then you are an intelligent person.

Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don’t measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have.