– People with a high IP level tend to try consistently to raise their AP level.
– Your IP level = Your ideal of your own personal quality.
– Your IP level is closely connected to your personality.
– You won’t really be satisfied with your efforts until you are living up to your own demands and your AP level is close to your IP level.
– You have reached your IP level when you fell that:
* You can not do better
* You are proud of your performance
* You gladly put your name on your work.
– Your ideal quality standard is one of the most important values you have.
– Your IP level is influential on:
* Your development
* Your effectiveness
* Your relationships with the world around you
* Your opportunities in the future.
– The people who have the greatest influence on your IP level = Your parents, your brothers and sisters, your friends, your teachers.
– Your IP level is influenced by your exposure to the media = Radio, TV, newspapers, movies, books, magazines and social media.
– Your IP level is especially shaped by your experience of the world around you and its:
*Behavior and examples
*Demands and expectations
* Recognition and rewards.
– The more you corrected and guided, the higher your IP level. This is only true if the reprimands were given in such a way that you perceived them as being both positive and justified. You had to feel that criticism was meant to help you improve.
– If a lot was demanded and expected of you as a child, your IP level will probably be high. This is only true, however, if the demands and expectations placed upon you were reasonable, considering your age, experience and skill.
– Your IP level is most easily influenced during the first years of your life. From around the age of 8, it becomes more and more difficult to influence your IP level.
– From around the age of 18, you are no longer so receptive to outside influences and your IP level begins to stabilize.
– When you are in your mid-twenties at the latest, your IP level will become relatively stable.
After 25, only strong emotional experiences can cause noticeable changes in your IP level.
