<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Tony Alessandra" title="Tony Alessandra" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/tony-alessandra-07.jpg" />One major aspect of your personal image comes from how well you&#8217;ve developed what&#8217;s inside your skull. I&#8217;m not talking about a high IQ or your skill at Trivial Pursuit. I&#8217;m referring to your mental fitness.</p>
<p>Can your mind lift abstract concepts from The Wall Street Journal or from the professional journal in your field? Can you grasp the intricacies of a problem explained by an expert from another field? Can you hang in there when getting an issue settled is going to mean clearing seven committees and the CEO? <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2008/02/silent-messages-your-intellectual-image-by-tony-alessandra/" title="Permanent Link: Silent Messages: Your Intellectual Image By Tony Alessandra" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":5,"date":"2008-02-07T21:52:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T02:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/02\/silent-messages-your-intellectual-image-by-tony-alessandra\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:34:59","slug":"silent-messages-your-intellectual-image-by-tony-alessandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/02\/silent-messages-your-intellectual-image-by-tony-alessandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Messages: Your Intellectual Image By Tony Alessandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Tony Alessandra\" title=\"Tony Alessandra\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/tony-alessandra-07.jpg\" \/>One major aspect of your personal image comes from how well you&#8217;ve developed what&#8217;s inside your skull. I&#8217;m not talking about a high IQ or your skill at Trivial Pursuit. I&#8217;m referring to your mental fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Can your mind lift abstract concepts from The Wall Street Journal or from the professional journal in your field? Can you grasp the intricacies of a problem explained by an expert from another field? Can you hang in there when getting an issue settled is going to mean clearing seven committees and the CEO? <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/02\/silent-messages-your-intellectual-image-by-tony-alessandra\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Silent Messages: Your Intellectual Image By Tony Alessandra\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4341,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}