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NICHOLAS BOOTHMAN
Chapter 26:
Your Purpose Statement
When someone asks you to describe yourself, what
do you say? Most people are incapable of answering
this question accurately. And who can blame them.
They’ve been defined by other people since the day
they were born. “You’re so clever.” “You’re shy.” “Why
are you so clumsy?” Re-inventing yourself built on
other people’s definitions of you is doomed to failure.
Ask someone to give you seven words to describe
themselves and you’ll soon discover they can’t: not
accurately. For example, they might say they are
“caring”, “creative” and “organized” when, if you dig
a little deeper, you discover that when they say caring,
what they actually mean is “vigilant.” When they say
“creative” when what they really mean is “inventive.”
And by “organized” they may really mean
“methodical”.
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