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One of the sixteen callings

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The Maker

You can't rest while the thing in your head doesn't yet exist.

9%share this calling

What did you come here to do?

sumof.me

You are oriented toward creation, bringing into existence what wasn't there before. The blank page is not a threat to you; it's the whole point.

Your strengths

You turn ideas into real things other people can touch.

You're energised by the blank page that paralyses others.

You'd rather make a rough something than admire a perfect nothing.

Your weaknesses

You start far more than you finish.

You chase the new and abandon the nearly-done.

You can value making over whether the thing was needed.

Your opportunities

Your output, sustained, becomes a body of work that compounds.

Finishing, not just starting, is the skill that sets you apart.

You can build the things others only ever talk about.

Your calling

To bring into the world what didn't exist before you.

How this might express itself

The creator

Any field where the job is to make new things, often.

The builder of products

Turning ideas into things real people use.

The prolific generator

Roles that reward a steady stream of new work.

Where this purpose can get lost

When the rush of starting becomes an addiction, a graveyard of brilliant unfinished things.

Roles that tend to fit

Product designer / makerEngineerArtistFounderInventorCreative director

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