Heart, Head, Body

Three capacities you already have. Development means using them on purpose.

The Ever-Present Capacities

You don't need to acquire the ability to care, think, and act. You're doing all three right now. These capacities are running constantly — they're what it means to be human.

Heart — Your caring capacity. Where things matter. What sets direction. Without heart, you could analyze options forever without any reason to choose.

Head — Your thinking capacity. Where things make sense. What processes information, recognizes patterns, constructs meaning. Without head, caring couldn't translate into understanding.

Body — Your doing capacity. Where things happen. What engages the world, takes action, builds skill through practice. Without body, caring and thinking never become reality.

These aren't separate modules. They're integrated, constantly communicating. Your body state affects your emotions. Your emotions shape your thinking. Your thinking directs your action. The three work together — or fail together.

The Curated Dimensions

The ever-present capacities are always running. But you can curate them — deliberately shape what they contain:

Capacity

Curated Dimension

The Question

Heart

Purpose

What do I care about?

Head

Paradigm

How do I understand the world?

Body

Practice

What am I actually doing?

Purpose is curated heart — your examined values, your affirmed priorities, your Gold Star Ideals.

Paradigm is curated head — your tested mental models, your chosen frameworks, your Red Toolbox.

Practice is curated body — your trained skills, your built habits, your Green Gear.

Purpose → Paradigm → Practice. Why → How → What.

The Gold Star Kit

Everyone carries a set of operating equipment through life — what you care about, how you make sense of things, what you're practiced at doing.

Most people accumulate this by accident. steamHouse believes you should build it on purpose.

This is another meta-commitment: we won't tell you what to put in your kit, but we advocate that having a consciously curated one matters. Drifting through life with unexamined values, untested mental models, and accidental habits is a real loss.

We call our framework for this the "Gold Star Kit" — but the structure underneath is universal:

Purpose (we call it "Gold Star Ideals") — Your examined values and priorities. What you care about, affirmed rather than inherited. Your sense of what makes life worth living.

Paradigm (we call it "Red Toolbox") — Your tested mental models and frameworks. Ways of understanding the world that you've chosen because they actually help you think clearly.

Practice (we call it "Green Gear") — Your deliberately built skills and habits. Capabilities you've trained, not stumbled into.

You don't need our names for this. You need a version of this — consciously chosen rather than unconsciously inherited.

The Care Space

Your caring doesn't stop at yourself. It naturally extends outward:

Self → Others → World → Personal Whole

[CARE SPACE / FIRST PRINCIPLES GRAPHIC HERE]

This is the Care Space — the full terrain of what matters to you. Development includes expanding what you're able to care about, while keeping yourself in the picture.

The Four Principles (next page) operate across this entire space — they're how you navigate relationship with yourself, with others, and with reality itself.

[Next: The Principles →] What grounds it all