Stage 06 · Your unique mix · Lesson 1 of 3 Your overlap
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  3. Gather
  4. Trust
  5. Express

Stage 06 · Your unique mix Lesson 1 of 3

Your overlap

See how your story, your wisdom, your curiosity, and your skills fit together.

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Lesson one. Your overlap. See how your story, your wisdom, your curiosity, and your skills fit together. Your value is rarely one thing. It lives where four circles meet: what you've lived through, what you learned, what you're curious about, and what you're good at. Plenty of people share one circle with you. Almost no one shares all four. That overlap is the value no one else, and no machine, can copy. Why it matters. Authentic authority isn't being the best at one thing. It's being the only one with your mix. For example. Moved countries, trained as an engineer, curious about language, great at explaining: helping newcomers make sense of complex systems. Or: Survived a failed startup, studied psychology, curious about money, a good listener: guiding founders through hard decisions. Where this leads. Stage 6 brings everything together. This lesson finds the center. Hold on to this. Your value is rarely one thing. It's the combination no one else has.

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Hold on to this

Your value is rarely one thing. It's the combination no one else has.

The lesson

Your value is rarely one thing. It lives where four circles meet: what you've lived through, what you learned, what you're curious about, and what you're good at.

Plenty of people share one circle with you. Almost no one shares all four. That overlap is the value no one else, and no machine, can copy.

Why it matters

Authentic authority isn't being the best at one thing. It's being the only one with your mix.

Where this leads

  1. See
  2. Heal
  3. Gather
  4. Trust
  5. Express

Stage 6 brings everything together. This lesson finds the center.

For example

  • Moved countries, trained as an engineer, curious about language, great at explaining: helping newcomers make sense of complex systems.

  • Survived a failed startup, studied psychology, curious about money, a good listener: guiding founders through hard decisions.

A line from RumiClose
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside!
Rumi, tr. Coleman Barks

In plain words

What you were searching for outside was inside you all along.

For this lesson

The overlap you're looking for isn't out there. It's the mix you already are.

Your practice · about 8 min

Draw four overlapping circles and fill each one with a few words. Then write what lives in the middle, where they all meet.

Why it mattersSeeing them overlap shows you what only you can offer.

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Fill each circle, then the place they meet.

  1. Draw four circles that overlap, and fill each one.
  2. What you've lived through
  3. What you learned
  4. What you're curious about
  5. What you're good at
  6. In the middle: What lives where they overlap

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