How the Ladder of Growth works

Personality traits are seen as fixed. You're an introvert, a high-D on DiSC or an ENTJ. That's useful context, but it only tells you who you are, not how you're doing.

LOG measures states, how your growth looks right now across different parts of your life. Today's state isn't last year's state and it won't be next year's state. Your capacity changes and your perspective shifts. Context alters the level of what's available to you.

The Ladder doesn't describe who you are. It describes where you are, right now.

If growth fluctuates day to day, how can LOG measure it?

Think of a port with boats moored at the dock. There's a waterline on the wall. That's the sea level. On a calm day, the sea sits at the line. On a choppy day at high tide, waves crash up and over it. At low tide the water drops well below it.

Your baseline is the waterline. It's where your growth sits most of the time, not your best day, nor your worst day, your usual day.

Your ceiling is where you get to when everything's going your way. The sun's out, someone told you you look great, your hormones are playing nicely. That's your capacity to reach up, tap into intuition, trust the world's going to be okay. All of that kicks in at Glitter Ball or high Snooker Ball. A Bouncy Ball can get there too, when the wind's in their sails. When it isn't, it feels out of reach.

Your floor is where you drop to when things get tricky. You're under pressure, tired, blindsided. That's reactive mode. Your conscious mind takes longer to process at this point and when you haven't got time to think things through, you react. Your floor is your default response when you haven't got the bandwidth to choose differently.

The distance between your floor and your ceiling is your bandwidth, the emotional and mental range you have to work with. A wider range means more capacity to draw on but also a deeper drop. A narrower range means you're operating in a smaller zone.

LOG doesn't tell you what to do. It doesn't prescribe an intervention, a method, a programme or a path.

That's not a limitation. That's the whole point.

Growth happens through many pathways. Coaching. Therapy. Clearance work. Meditation. Reading. Time. Relationships. Letting go of things that have stopped serving you. Those pathways are important and they're context-specific. What works for one person doesn't always work for another.

LOG's job is different. We measure where you are, whether you're making any shifts and in which direction. Partners and practitioners do the intervention. Measurement is our domain, the methods are theirs.

That's why LOG can sit alongside any intervention without competing with it. And because we're not also selling you the thing we're measuring, you can trust the measurement.