Relation

Recast the thing as a link between parties rather than a property sitting inside anyone. What you were treating as a trait becomes a fit, a match, or a mismatch, so the fix moves to changing one side of the pairing or the pairing itself.

Recast the thing as a link between parties rather than a property sitting inside anyone. What you were treating as a trait becomes a fit, a match, or a mismatch, so the fix moves to changing one side of the pairing or the pairing itself.

Example

Purpose stops being something inside you and becomes a match between what you're good at and who needs it. New question: which three of the 12 projects you did this year had someone on the other end who visibly needed exactly what you brought? Chase better pairings, not deeper self-search.