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Flashing back to a passing year, we see eventful happenings that find an abode into our memory. And when you look at the moments driven by individual feats making your nation proud, you definitely owe them acknowledgment.

There are personalities who raised the green flag at the international level. We are here reminiscing success stories of individuals who’ve become a source of inspiration.

Mostly all of us had been accustomed to saying ‘Thank You Raheel Sharif’ to the former army chief for his services, but we also owe thanks to some other notable figures whose accomplishments deserve high-five in the same spirit.

On February 28, 2016, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy became the first Pakistani to win two Oscar awards.

Sharmeen won in the Best Documentary Short Subject for A Girl In The River: The Price of Forgiveness in the 88th Academy awards. The documentary which sheds light on honour killings in Pakistan follows the story of a teenage girl shot in the face by her own family.

Fiza Farhan is the Chief Executive Officer of Buksh Foundation and Director of Buksh Energy Pvt Ltd. She was elected as a member of the first-ever High-Level Panel of the UN Secretary-General on Women’s Economic Empowerment in February

She holds honoree titles of Co-Chairperson Italian Development Chamber of Commerce in Pakistan, Future Energy Leader at the World Energy Council and has received multiple honours over the years including the 2016 Influential Leader Award by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (ACCSB) and the 2016 Women’s Entrepreneur’s Achievement Award amongst others.

Fiza was also part of the “30 under 30” list by Forbes magazine for Social Entrepreneurs in 2015.

Rukhsana and Sofia became the first Pakistani women to bag international medals in boxing at the 2016 South Asian Games in Shillong in February.

The 21-year-old became Pakistan’s first female shooter to compete in Olympics 2016.

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We all know about the value of high IQ and EQ in today’s competitive business world but what about your curiosity quotient (CQ)?

As individuals, companies and nations struggle to adapt socially and economically to a post-Covid world, changing trends in the world of work have also accelerated, meaning that finding ways to stay competitive in business and the job market are more important than ever.

Much has been said about the need to embrace new skills and learning new ways of working for employees of the future, but what is the key trait which underlies this ability? I suggest it relates to your CQ.

The idea is hardly new - many years ago, Einstein is quoted as self-deprecatingly saying:

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

But the idea is as relevant today as it was then. The acronym CQ was first coined by researchers in the early 2000s to mean cultural intelligence (or cultural quotient), or the capability to relate and work effectively across cultures. More recently it was used by Pulitzer prize-winning American commentator and journalist Thomas Friedman to refer to curiosity quotient, which together with IQ and EQ is recognised to enhance one’s capability to thrive, and to lead, in an increasingly complex world.

In 2013, Friedman wrote of the necessity for CQ:

"The skill required for every decent job is rising, as is the necessity of lifelong learning…those with more PQ (passion quotient) and CQ (curiosity quotient) to leverage all the new digital tools not just to find a job, but to invent one or reinvent one, and not just to learn but to relearn for a lifetime…" will find themselves at a real advantage in the future.

This fed into a hypothesis about future leadership by Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic which was published in Harvard Business Review in 2014. Dr Chamorro-Premuzic is a leading authority in personality