Unpackage Your Passion

I thought I was a writer. I was wrong. Are you stuffing your verb into the wrong noun, too?

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I have a hypothesis:

The problem with following your passion isn’t the passion part. It’s the package.

You’re working within a generic label (writer, coach, consultant) without understanding the unique, underlying source that makes you passionate about it in the first place.

I just realized I’ve been doing this for a decade. Here’s what I finally figured out, delivered in 12 slides instead of my usual 2,000-word posts.

The format is part of the experiment. Let’s see if it proves or disproves my hypothesis.

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Society sands people smooth. I call it conformity waste.

The Zag is my running investigation into reversing it: decoding what makes you different and putting it to work. I publish what I find every 2 to 3 weeks. Zero spam.

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I’m on an adventure developing better systems for understanding and designing around what makes each of us different. The Zag is where I share what I’m learning.

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I’m on an adventure developing better systems for understanding and designing around what makes each of us different.

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