Jonathan Fields - Good Life Project

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, we have invited Jonathan Fields to the show. Jonathan is the Founder/CEO of Spark Endeavors and the lead architect behind the Sparketypes. An arch typing system and set of tools used by over 500,000 people and organizations to identify, nurture, and cultivate work that brings people alive and equips organizations and leaders to more effectively unlocking potential, motivation, impact, and joy. He is also an author and has been featured everywhere from New York Times, Wall Street Journal Fast Company, Inc, The Guardian Vogue, and more. Tune in to this episode; you are going to love it!</span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[2:39] </span><strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don't listen to me. If I start speaking to you, it's probably going to be to invite you to start listening to yourself, to your heart, to the whisper that lies deep inside of you that you've probably been ignoring for a long time. When I start talking, it's usually to ask questions or make an invitation that doesn't have to do with you listening to me but you tuning into yourself.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400;">[5:01] </span><strong>Navigating people to listen to themselves</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We've become so disembodied and not trained to pay attention to what's going on within ourselves because it's an uncomfortable exploration. The bigger thing is not necessarily that there's some deeper trauma, but we're just taught that there is an ideal that we're expected to live into. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[6:55] Nobody ever gave us a process or set of tools that would help us navigate it. So we're left unaware and unequipped. And so we follow the path that seems like it's all laid out for us. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400;">[7:37] </span><strong>Human's desire to be part of a tribe and not be sol