Welcome to the Bright Star Model
A quick orientation before you dive in.
1. Home
First, go to the Home page to get an overview of this app. It introduces the core concepts and how it is structured to help you explore the 6 Quotients.
2. The Six Qs
Start here. Each Q has a More button — tap it to learn what that Q is about. Answer the short questions underneath, then click AI's Feedback to get friendly comments on your responses and a suggested score for that Q.
3. Your Star
Slide each Q to adjust its score — the spoke changes as you move it — or simply accept the AI-suggested scores from The Six Qs page. Once you're set, you'll see the shape and brightness of your star.
4. Brighten Your Star
If you'd like to go further, work through those questions. They'll help you explore simple ways to nurture each Q.
Take your time and enjoy the journey — everything is designed to flow naturally as you explore your Qs and build a more wholesome you.
The 6Q Star Model
A map for wholesome living.
Whether you are struggling to find your footing and get ahead in life, or you have already climbed the mountain of success only to find it feels empty at the top, you are likely facing the same fundamental challenge: a one-dimensional approach to development. True fulfillment isn't about over-indexing on a single area of life — it's about building a life of intentional balance, functional harmony, and deep moral alignment across all parts of who you are.
The 6Q Star Model — refined from the coaching framework of Peter Ho — is a transformational system designed to help you diagnose where you are stuck, balance your personal growth, and build a meaningful, prosperous life. By mapping and strengthening the six essential intelligences of the human experience, this model provides the roadmap to move past frustration, escape the trap of empty achievements, and find both progress and peace.
What is the purpose of the 6Q Star Model?
No matter where you are on your journey, the model serves as a holistic compass to help you navigate life's two most common traps.
The core purpose of the model is to recenter your growth around your Humanity Quotient (HQ) — your moral compass, character, and spiritual grounding. Placed at the absolute centre of the star, HQ acts as the gravitational hub that guides and elevates five distinct spheres of competence:
IQ — Intelligence Quotient
The Power of the Mind. Your capacity for cognitive agility, systemic analysis, and learning how to "unlearn" outdated assumptions.
EQ — Emotional Quotient
The Intelligence of the Heart. Your ability to regulate your internal emotional state, practice active listening, and build authentic empathy.
AQ — Adversity Quotient
The Resilience of the Spirit. Your cognitive toolkit for reframing failures, preventing setbacks from bleeding into other areas of life, and building grit.
PQ — Passion Quotient
The Fire of Purpose. Your intrinsic drive and engagement, turning daily activities into sources of flow and authentic contribution.
MQ — Money Quotient
The Wisdom of Stewardship. Your psychological and practical relationship with money, treating it not as a vanity scorecard, but as a resource for autonomy and service.
What can the 6Q Star Model deliver for you?
A practical, actionable framework — a clear diagnostic of your current strengths and gaps, and the real-world synergies that come from integrating them.
The Engine to Get Ahead
If you are struggling to build momentum, this combination provides the ultimate toolkit to break through barriers.
- Response Agility (AQ): Learn to treat setbacks as curriculum rather than catastrophes, building a muscle that thrives on manageable resistance.
- Operational Intelligence (IQ): Master strategic mental models to solve problems efficiently and expand your cognitive capacity.
- Collaborative Impact (EQ): Shift from passive emotional reactions to active choices, building relational safety and deep listening skills that naturally open professional doors.
The Leadership & Alignment Engine
For those stepping into greater responsibility, this synergy ensures your growth is sustainable, trusted, and impactful.
- Strategic Vision (IQ): Cut through noise using systemic thinking and first-principles analysis.
- Team Psychological Safety (EQ): Inspire loyalty and navigate high-stakes conflicts gracefully by listening to the unspoken words in the room.
- Uncompromised Trust (HQ): Build an impeccable reputation where your word is your bond. Trust acts as grease on a wheel — deals move faster and cheaper because people know they can trust you with their reputation.
Sustainable Wealth & Stewardship
Whether you are building your first savings or managing a major enterprise, this formula connects your financial habits directly to your well-being.
- Autonomy over Anxiety (MQ): Balance earning ethically with disciplined saving and intentional spending, using money to buy back your time and secure personal freedom.
- Values-Aligned Legacy (HQ): Deploy your resources to support human flourishing, ensuring your financial success leaves a clean conscience and a lasting positive impact.
Discover the shape of your star
Every person's star shape is unique, and asymmetric spoke lengths are completely natural. The goal of the 6Q Star Model is not a forced, artificial perfection, but rather intentional balance, functional harmony, and ethical alignment.
It proves that good character is actually good business, and the foundation of a life well-lived. It gives you the raw engine power to climb out of adversity, the stability to handle success, and the moral compass to ensure you travel in a direction that truly benefits your life and the world.
Are you ready to find your balance, unlock your potential, and live a whole life? Continue to the rest of the app for more.
How this works
1. Sit with each Q
What it is, where it's starved, where it tips into excess — then a few questions meant to sit with, not answer quickly.
2. Rate it honestly
Describe a real recent moment. The AI proposes a score with its reasoning — you decide if it's right.
3. Watch your star
Your six scores shape a star that glows brighter the more balanced — and HQ-anchored — it is.
4. Go deeper, later
"Brighten Your Star" walks each one through a Socratic working-through, for whenever you want to go further than reflection alone.
One thing to know
This app keeps no record of you. There's no login, no account, no trajectory saved anywhere but this browser tab. When you're done — or whenever you like — download a PDF dated and named to you: your star, your questions, your answers, and the AI's reflections. That file is yours to keep and to compare against, whenever you come back to do this again.
There's no import, and nothing carries over automatically between visits. If you want to see how you've changed, keep your downloaded copies and place them side by side yourself — the trajectory is something only you can piece together, the same way you're the only one who can piece together what your answers actually mean.
The Six Qs
Work through them in any order. Nothing here is timed or graded.
Your Star
The ring marks a perfect 10 on every spoke — your reference for how much further each Q can grow. Brightness is the sum of all six scores, HQ included, and HQ now colours and animates the whole star, not just its own centre.
Watch what HQ does: a low score leaves the whole star muted and still; a high score makes every spoke more vivid and gives it a slow, living pulse. These sliders and your answers in "The Six Qs" stay in sync — rate yourself there, or adjust here directly.
Brighten Your Star
Where reflection turns into direction. A focused, Socratic pass through each Q — Want, Doing, Evaluate, Strategy — for building real momentum, not just understanding where you stand. AI Feedback here updates your score the same way it does in The Six Qs.