The Good, Better, BEST Model
The 9 Layers of Intelligence
IQ:
Knowledge: Good
Applied knowledge: Better
Life + knowledge smarts from wise and opposing perspectives: BEST
Achievement Intelligence:
Survival: Good
Meaning: Better
Purpose: BEST
Work hard if you must, but working smart is more enjoyable.
Leadership Intelligence:
Growth: Good
Achievement with positive impact: Better
Build champions at scale: BEST
Emotional Intelligence/EQ/Wellbeing: In a near-crisis mode with kids and adults.
Self-aware of the good, bad, and ugly attributes, personally: Good
Self and others aware of the good, bad, and ugly: Better
Aware and well regulated: BEST
Relational Intelligence:
Committed to health if in a partnership: Good
Developed and prioritized for health: Better
Thriving as individuals and as a team: BEST
This often requires having good role models, strong emotional intelligence/EQ, and requires strong skills in communication and conflict. ~12% are expected to be at this level but anyone with courage and willingness can arrive here. These relationships impact wellbeing more than any other factor according to the longest study ever conducted by Harvard spanning over 70 years. Muy importante!
Love Intelligence:
Brotherly/likability: Good
Unconditional/committed: Better
Intimate: BEST
Intimacy runs so much deeper than physical. Requires high levels of EQ.
High-quality intimate relationships have all three levels in harmony.
Health Intelligence:
Body emphasis: Good
Body and mind together: Better
Body, Mind and Spirit: BEST
Spiritual Intelligence:
Expands beyond the 5 senses above natural abilities into the supernatural realm.
Benefits can be for now and extend eternal, depending on the source.
Commitment to understanding: Good
Divine standards: Better
Limitless: BEST
Financial Intelligence:
Ability to meet the needs and some wants too: Good
Stewardship: Better
Generous giver: BEST
Secular studies show that nothing produces more dopamine (pleasure chemical) than giving.
Giving is a standard measurement of heart health spiritually speaking.
Regret-free is the best way to be!