The Value Altitude Map™

The world isn’t flat; it’s emotionally vertical. The Value Altitude Map™ maps how cost, pressure, pace, and emotional yield stack into peaks, plateaus, and basins, rerouting how individuals, institutions, and platforms decide where life and work should actually sit.

This IP reframes relocation, travel, and urban aspiration as an altitude-choice problem, mapping 40 countries into five experiential bands where money, time, and nervous systems intersect. It codifies a deployable lexicon—Value Altitude, Emotional Yield, Joy Basins, Pressure Cliffs—that enterprises, media ecosystems, and policy shops can operationalize across books, tools, series, and advisory product. By exposing the inversion between GDP and lived happiness, it contextualizes a vague intuition (“I’m only happy at certain altitudes”) into a metric stack that brands, governments, and platforms can synchronize against real human wellbeing.