Panaji: Our intelligence quotient and emotional quotient-obsessed institutions, schools, armies, corporations, quietly fail people. The framework to making a complete human being actually lies in our older roots in the upanishads, the Gita, and the yoga sutras, said retired army officer Lt Col Ratnesh Sinha at a recent event in Panaji.Sinha said intelligence is not just about what a person can compute, without saying much about whether they’ll keep a promise, recover from loss, or lead others with integrity. He was speaking after the release of his work ‘The Psychological Revolution’.Sinha served 23 years in the Army, where he saw up close what character looks like when everything is on the line, how discipline, resilience, and leadership actually get built under pressure rather than talked about in a seminar room.Sinha said the answer was the human quotients framework, or HQF: twelve interlinked quotients that together attempt to map what actually makes a person excellent, resilient, and whole.“IQ handles cognitive reasoning, EQ covers emotional awareness and regulation. SQ, the spiritual quotient, works as the aligning force tying the other eleven together. AQ is about adversity and resilience, LQ is leadership, PQ is potential, the will to become something more. MQ is moral clarity, SoQ is social connectedness, CrQ is creative and divergent thinking, LvQ is love in its more selfless, unconditional sense. HuQ is humility and ego discipline, and WiQ, wisdom, sits at the top, deciding whether everything else actually gets applied at the right moment,” said Sinha.He’s trained as a counselling psychologist, holds a doctorate in the field, and is CEO of Bhonsale Knowledge City and commandant of Yashwantrao Bhonsale Sainik School in Sawantwadi.
