For example, if ‘variety’ is one of your themes, do something as small as taking a new route to work. If spending time with certain types of people came up as important, find them (be it through friends or discovering an event where they gather), and get out of your usual circles for an hour this week.

The final indicator of a strength is that you are doing it already (even if you don’t notice). Although Alex assumed he had risen through the ranks because of his technical skills, he soon realized all his most satisfying successes came back to the way he pulled a team together and made lasting connections.

Try this for yourself. Identify one to three topics that you have learnt about or experienced in the last few years. Be it a personal life experience (such as getting out of debt) or something else. What help would you have wanted with those topics at the time? Now, crucially: are you personally excited about offering this sort of help to people

you shine, the parts you find natural, those are put to one side. You are ‘good enough’ at that already, the logic goes. I call this the ‘all-rounder’ myth. As a Free Range Human you’re going to have to flip that right around. By focusing on your strengths, you tap into your shortcut to loving what you do and standing out in the process.

How do these answers make you feel? For example, when I hit the right answers, I feel elated, with this joy rising up to the top of my head. Others feel a comfortable warmth in their chest, and their body relaxes. Write down

You see, from a young age you’ve been sold a lie. That lie is that you have to be good at everything in order to be ‘good enough’. When you were at school and getting that report card, where was the focus: on the subjects you were great at or the ones that ‘need work’? If you got private tuition was it for subjects at which you were amazing or the

you won’t be able to do that sort of thing when you grow up and get a proper job.’

http://frh.me/freerangepersonality To go straight to the Free Range

‘prototype project’,