THE NEXT BUILD-OUT: PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE

Now, with some history and an understanding of the development of EI and SI as separate but related bodies of knowledge, we have some guidelines for the next intelligence that’s a candidate for a build-out, namely practical intelligence. If we’re going to build a framework for describing, teaching, and learning practical intelligence, then it needs to be well practical, above all. It has to show us useful, helpful, learnable methods and habits of thought. It needs a defining vocabulary that can help us capture and articulate its key principles. It needs some visual-graphic models that can constellate various key concepts and ideas into useful packages of meaning. And it needs a “story line,” a sense of continuity that leads us from one level of understanding to another. Such a model or framework is what I hope to present in this book, and only time and the reactions of readers of all kinds will tell the extent to which I may have succeeded.