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Career pattern-finding

Diamonds and rocks

The goal: find the pattern in what types of work and what kinds of colleagues are worth digging for. List every role you’ve held, even different chapters inside the same job — for each one, name what you liked and what you didn’t. The pattern is the point, not the list.

The exercise

Section 01
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What are the common themes in what you liked?

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What are the common themes in what you didn’t like?

You leave with
Fill in the exercise above and your pattern shows up here.

If this helped, that’s worth a conversation.

This is one of nine. If today’s exercise was useful, thirty minutes will tell us whether coaching would be too.