The Finding Our Way mastermind is inspired by Jim Collins’s book What to Make of a Life. Collins tries to answer a single question: What to make of your life?
Collins’s matched-pair research means he studies two people side by side who faced a similar kind of cliff—a major turning point or disruption in life—and then compares what happened next. The point is to see how people with similar starting conditions can make different choices, respond differently in the fog, and end up on very different paths. That method helps him spot patterns in encodings, cliffs, fire, and self-knowledge, rather than just telling one person’s story.
What to Make of a Life is required reading or listening for the Finding Our Way mastermind. Everyone faces major turning points in their lives. Consequently, everyone should read this book, whether you join our mastermind or not.
Collins spent 10 years researching (with his team) and 2 years writing his book. He never encountered a single person who didn’t have a cliff in their life.
We created an assessment to help you figure out where you are. Because the names/terms of the book’s major elements are used, a glossary is provided.
Based on Jim Collins’s What to Make of a Life
This assessment is not about whether you are successful. It is about where you are standing in your life right now.
Score each statement from 1 to 5:
1 = Not true for me
2 = Slightly true
3 = Somewhat true
4 = Mostly true
5 = Very true
You may still be functioning well, but something inside you knows the ground is shifting.
Reflection: A high score here may mean you are approaching the cliff. You are not lost, but you are beginning to see that the next chapter cannot simply be a continuation of the last one.
You are in the middle of the disruption. The old frame has cracked, but the new one has not yet formed.
Reflection: A high score here may mean you are through the cliff but not yet clear. This is the dangerous and sacred middle. The task is not to force certainty. The task is to stay awake long enough to learn what the cliff is revealing.
The cliff is behind you, but clarity has not fully returned. You are searching for the next meaningful way forward.
Reflection: A high score here may mean you are past the cliff and in the fog. You are not failing. You are between lives. The old chapter no longer defines you, and the new one must be discovered with patience, honesty, and disciplined self-knowledge.
5–11
This phase may not be your primary concern right now.
12–18
This phase is present, but not dominant.
19–25
This phase is likely where you are standing now.
You may score high in more than one section. That is normal. Life transitions do not always move in a clean, straight line. You may be approaching one cliff, still processing another, and already wandering through the fog of what comes next.
Finding Our Way is a one-hour-per-week, five-week mastermind for people standing near a major life transition, moving through one, or trying to make sense of life after one.
It is not a how-to program.
It is a guided exploration of self-knowledge, inspired by the major elements in Jim Collins’s book What to Make of a Life.
The Finding Our Way mastermind is an exploration of who you are, who you have been and who you may become. Together, we will examine the cliffs, fog, encodings, inner fire and personal hedgehogs that shape every life and consider what they reveal about the life you are making.
Please join us!
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