Tell us three things: 1. Your name and where you're based. 2. What brought you to The Pattern Lab — what were you looking for, or what caught your attention? 3. And this: which of the six tendencies in the Classroom PDF felt most like you — the one that made you think "yes, that's what I do"? There are no wrong answers. Every tendency is the right one for the individual it belongs to. We're just starting to map the territory.

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.

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.

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?