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Heart, Head, and Purpose

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On a big sheet, draw a Venn Diagram with two circles. The left Heart, the right Head, the overlapping middle Purpose.

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Heart - What are you passionate about?

Fill the left circle

  • What issues or ideas make your heart beat faster, whether because you are so deeply compelled by them, because you are angered by them, or because you are overjoyed by them?
  • What drives you, what is your why?
  • What has been passed down to you through ancestry and life?
  • What global issues and movements fill your soul?
  • What is the primary topic of the articles you always read, and the movies, books, and TV shows to which you are most attracted?
  • What are some similar qualities in the people you consistently find yourself drawn to?
  • When are you sitting on the edge of your chair?
  • What social or environmental problem do you ache to see solved?
  • When you imagine the world you want to live in what three words come to mind?
  • What values do you hold?

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Head - Your knowledge

Fill the right circle

  • What do you know inside and out? What are you skilled in? What do you want to learn?
  • What groups or individuals do you know well or have unique access to?
  • What areas of academics and life could you teach others about?
  • What education or other learning outside of school do you have?
  • What experiences have you had that have given you insights or information that most others do not have? What are these insights?
  • What are the three things that your best friends, your family, and your mentor would agree you are best at?
  • What is your role in groups—whether you are with your friends, your family, or your peers?
  • What technology, apps, websites, and tools do you use?

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Purpose - Connect/combine Heart and Head. Write down all of things you could build, all the products or services you could create.

Fill the middle circle

  • Imagine you are at a showcase and presentation, what are you presenting on, what did you accomplish?
  • How could your work evolve as you hit roadblocks?