When illuminating is your driving tendency, you'll want to understand why things happened, and you'll want to explain your analysis, too, if you get half a chance. If illuminating (conveying your sense of the meaning in events or their likely consequences) is your instinctive response, you'll often find yourself helping others who matter to understand things. You'll be frustrated if you can't enlighten, if people who haven't taken any time to work out which things matter and which don't ignore your conclusions. That's part of the burden people who are strong in illuminating carry. Have you noticed this? Someone who thinks they know it all, and pushes their conclusions forward, yet isn't paying attention where it matters, and ignores others who are tryng to shine a light into the corners? We all lose when we don't collectively, learn from past experience.

Gus ( @Gus Gray ) is the Lightwright, a very cool self-description for someone who helps people find or create awesome careers that light them up.

Think about roles you've had, or tasks people wanted done - that you didn't enjoy. You might have performed adequately, yet been bored, frustrated, or found your mind constantly wandering because, well, you'd rather have been ... What's the job or role or position you'd never go back to if you didn't have to please someone who mattered — and why?

You might not have learned the names we give the patterns in human behaviour yet, but you'll have seen some, or blends of several. The people you interact with will consistently response to things they hear or see in a certain way - what is that way? You might also have noticed a part of your own pattern. I'm always thinking about how I can use what I've learned to make sensible suggestions about changing processes. I want my ideas used, so I found them in the realities I observe. Doesn't mean they are always good, of course - or that I won't change my mind about some aspect of any idea almost as soon as I've formed it. That's the pattern I see in me. It's always been there. Now I've uncovered it and embraced it, I feel stronger and more settled. I know what I intrinsically want to do. What patterns have you seen, either in yourself or in others?

You've done things you really enjoyed, even if only briefly. We all have. Think about what you were doing in those moments. You were probably getting something you wanted. There aren't many things people want. If you were happy, fulfilled or at peace doing something, you were getting more of one of these: - Stability - you increased your safety, security, health or wellbeing - Independence - you increased your sense of identity or autonomy - Proficiency - you increased your knowledge or skill in something you thought important - Accomplishment - you increased your impact where it mattered - Connections - you increased your sense of belonging somewhere - Interdependence - you increased your sense that you are part of a greater whole In every season of life, one of these will matter more than the others. And the one that matters most right now is the reason you're doing what you're doing. Know yourself more deeply.