263: Jonathan Fields - Uncovering The Work That Sparks You

Jonathan Fields (IG: @jonathanfields) is dad, husband, award-winning author, entrepreneur, host of top-ranked Good Life Project® podcast and creator of the Sparketypes™, a set of archetypes designed to reveal the source-code for the work you’re here to do.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The most rewarding experience of Jonathan’s life
• Rekindling his love for physically making things with his hands
• The joy of anticipation
• Yearning to create
• Why there's a growing community of makers and crafters
• Jonathan is 100% Maker
• What am I doing with my life?
• Creating the Sparketype assessment
• What drives you?
• Exploring the 10 different Sparketypes
• Maker - making ideas manifest
• Scientist – driven to solve
• Identifying your primary and shadow Sparketypes
• Maven – driven to learn
• Essentialist – driven to distill
• The difference between passion and Sparketypes
• Performer – driven to perform
• Warrior – drawn to lead
• Sage – driven to teach
• Advocate – driven to give voice to ideas or beings
• Advisor – driven to work in an intimate, hands-on way
• Nurturing – driven to give care
• Marni & Jesse’s Sparketypes
• The Creation | Elevation Spectrum
• Any given Sparketype can be expressed in various ways
• Change the way you build your life

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Related links:

Take the FREE Sparketype Assessment

Jonathan Fields' website

Good Life Project

Good Life Project Podcast

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Listen to Jonathan Fields previously on TUHP (episode #123)

Jonathan Fields - How to Live a Good Life (book)

Jonathan Fields - My Good Life Journal (book)

Jonathan Fields - Uncertainty (book)

Jonathan Fields - Career Renegade (book)

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Ryder Carroll - The Bullet Journal Method (book)

Listen to Ryan Nicodemus (The Minimalists) previously on TUHP (episode #132)

Listen to Dave Asprey (Bulletproof Radio) previously on TUHP (episode #159 & #61)

Listen to Chris Kresser (Revolution Health Radio) previously on TUHP (episode #247)

The Mental Illness Happy Hour (podcast)

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