Sparked

Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive

Jonathan Fields

• Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781400225460
• eBook ISBN: 9781400225491
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Careers
• Index: Psychology

Discover your unique imprint for work that makes you come alive, fills you with meaning, joy, purpose, and possibility, then spend the rest of your life doing it.

We’re all born with a certain “imprint” for work that makes us come alive. This is your "Sparketype®," your DNA-level driver of work that lets you know, deep down, you’re doing what you’re here to do. Work that motivates you, fills you with purpose and, fully-expressed in a healthy way, becomes a main-line to meaning, flow, performance, and joy. Put another way, work that “sparks” you.

Sparked draws upon years of research, experimentation, more than 25-million data-points generated by over half-a-million people, and hundreds of deep-dive conversations with luminaries from science to art to industry and wellbeing. Award-winning author, serial wellness-industry founder, and host of the top-ranked Good Life Project®, Jonathan Fields, and his team at Spark Endeavors, developed the Sparketype imprints and methodology that is the basis of this book.

In this book, Fields and his team will help you:

• Discover what sparks you, what drains you, where you stumble and come alive, so you can reclaim a sense of direction, control, and purpose;
• Understand the “real” reasons certain experiences, jobs, and roles leave you empty and know how to make things better, without having to endure big disruptive changes;
• Learn from real-world, relatable stories, case-studies, and data-driven insights;
• Identify the action steps to begin immediately transforming the way you work and live.

Sparked takes you deep into the world of the Sparketypes, revealing an entirely new depth of insights about what makes you come alive in work life, along with what empties you out and trips you up, so you can avoid those life-drains.

You’ll discover tons of case studies, stories, and real-world applications, creating a comprehensive guide to help you discover what you are meant to do and how to get started.

INDEX

ability gaps

for Advisors, 168–69

for Makers, 40–41

for Sages, 113–15

for Warriors, 145–46

Activation Keys, 219–38

expand, 235–37

express, 220–24

and patience in making changes, 237–38

reimagine, 224–35

Advisor, 6, 151–73

animating impulse of, 151–54

as Anti-Sparketype, 252

boundaries for, 171

careers and income generation for, 172–73

creation of safety/trust by, 157–59

dependence cultivated by, 170–71

“exquisite attention” created by, 159–62

Maker Shadow with, 162–64

Nurturer Shadow with, 158–59, 232–35

for other Advisors, 164–66

other names for, 162–64

prevalence of, 255

prevalence of Shadow pairings with, 256

on Satisfaction Spectrumtm, 246

savior syndrome in, 169–70

Scientist Shadow with, 153–54

slogan of, 151

telling vs. listening by, 154–57

Warrior Shadow with, 156–57

what trips you up, 166–71

when clients seek validation over insight, 166–68

when impulse outpaces ability, 168–69

Advisor Shadow

with Advocate, 181–82

with Maker, 48–50

with Performer, 93–94

prevalence of, 255

prevalence of Primary pairings with, 257–59

with Sage, 112–13, 116–17

with Scientist, 64–65

with Warrior, 131–35, 138–39

Advocate, 6, 175–96

Advisor Shadow with, 181–82

animating impulse of, 175–78

as Anti-Sparketype, 252–53

binary thinking in, 188–90

burden on, 190–91

careers and income generation for, 194–96

depleted energy in, 192–94

engines of change built by, 181–83

Essentialist Shadow with, 185

inciting incidents for, 178–80

introverted, 184–85

lack of control challenge for, 186–88

Maker Shadow with, 181, 185

Maven Shadow with, 176–78, 182–83, 185

Nurturer Shadow with, 186–88

prevalence of, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• A Note from Jonathan
• Acknowledgments
• What Should I Do with My Life?
• The Maven
• The Maker
• The Scientist
• The Essentialist
• The Performer
• The Sage
• The Warrior
• The Advisor
• The Advocate
• The Nurturer
• Spark Your Work
• Spark Your Life, Spark the World
• Appendix
• Sparked Resources
• Index
• About the Author