The Power of "I-am"

For personal use.

General Definition:

I-amQ: The Power Quotient of I-am — I exist.

Pragmatic Definition:

  • I-amQ is not IQ.
  • Think of the Q of your I-am as the magnitude of the engine's Torque that it delivers to the car's wheels.
  • High Torque — I-amQ — is necessary for 4-wheel Drive Life and career.
  • With low I-amQ, hitting the gas is useless—no matter your IQ or ambition, you won't get far.


    High I-amQ Example:

    Richard Branson
    IQ: Unknown..
    School Performance: Poor..
    Challenges: Suffered from reading difficulties.
    Education: Dropped out of school at 16..
    Founded Virgin Group, which includes over 400 companies..
    Revenue: $19–25 billion (as of 2025)..
    Net Worth: $5 billion...

          Low I-amQ Profile Examples


          William James Sidis
          Confirmed IQ: Incredible, 250 to 300.
          Education: Graduated from Harvard with honors at 16.
          Achievements: Clerical clerk.
          Wrote the book Notes on the Collection of Transfers about streetcar transfers.



            Christopher Michael Langan.
            Media Title: America's Smartest Man (according to the media).
            Confirmed IQ: 190 to 210.
            Achievements: bar bouncer.



              As we can see, high IQ is not a significant competitive advantage in our world. Moreover, we — humans — have just lost our main IQ battle to Artificial Intelligence. We lost as a biological species.

              The Torque of our I-am - I exist and its magnitude Q is our personal and species-level chance not to screw up at this current turn in history, where everything we once knew is going to hell.




              Welcome.
              You've pulled into the only Garage where I-am gets wrenched.

              I'm the Human Torque Mechanic here.
              — Aleksandr Myshkin.



              I-amQ is my alternative to IQ.
              The mechanics of I-am torque — what actually puts power to the pavement.
              In this garage, I build it, stress-test it, and run it under load.



              A few who know where the work actually happens.
              Right here in this Garage.
              They vouch for the output.



              Let me ask you this: what if everything you know about yourself is just the tip of the iceberg?


              The common assumption is that the I-am — our basic sense of “I exist” — is assembled from self-perception, life experience, and psychological damage sealed inside the mind’s black box.


              Entire industries — coaching and psychotherapy included — are built on this assumption.



              The problem is simple: this model fails a crash test when you apply a pragmatic engineering approach.



              Why?
              From an engineering standpoint, that kind of I-am runs at very low efficiency.
              About 90% of its torque gets burned just keeping the thing running maintaining bloated complexity, juggling hidden dependencies, and patching bugs that come with a badly harmonized system.


              In plain terms, 90% of I-am Torque turns into I-am noise.
              I wouldn’t bet my last dollar on an I-am like that.

              The Garage Torque Mission —

              • Building human torque
              • Age —> Mileage Engineering
              • 4-Wheel Drive as a life system

              Tools. No motivation

              Want to look under the hood of raw I-am —
              and find out what Antarctica has to do with it?
              That rabbit hole is on the About page.


              Want in?
              This is where I engineer two Letters —
              built for 4-Wheel Drive Life.
              The garage kind.


              The
              Garage
              Letter —

              • Mindset Re-Torque.
              • Body Re-Bolt.
              • Age, Re-Built.

              No cash, no PhD in biomechanics required.

              The Old Tools Letter —
              Here — we build torque.
              The beat-up toolbox where I throw everything that actually turns on 4-Wheel Drive Life.
              Collected, not assigned.

              For Torqueheads.

              Grab it yourself —> Subscribe.
              Onwards.