There are plenty of metrics you can use to get a better grip on where you are in your life, and height isn’t one of them, unless you’re a teenage NBA hopeful. For the rest of us, let’s take a look at a metric that can have direct bearing on the kinds of conversations you should—and shouldn’t—be having.
I’ve talked with so many people in so many different industries that have been going through clarity spikes in their identities, I figured this post might come in handy, perhaps pointing the way for others in the throes of transition. And, if nothing else, it gives me a place to point people when they say, “Vive-what?”
Discovering your purpose isn’t a race. Instead of having the attitude of, “I’ve gotta find it NOW, so I can get going and make it happen!”, with a drive for perfection and a “now-I-can-stop-searching-and-just-be-happy” attitude, you’ll be far better off taking a page from the book of Japanese aesthetics, and more specifically, the concept of wabi-sabi.