Following are the frameworks that can help you understand and discover your WHY (or purpose/ vision/ goal) - “Memories & Themes” method - Goal Achievement Method by Mark Forster - Talent Stack by Scott Adams - Ikigai & Hedgehog concept by Jim Collins - Don’t follow passion - Cal Newport Few other frameworks: Naval ’s Founder-Product-Market fit Jordan B.Peterson’s Self authoring program Swadharma - Bhagvad Gita Skill-based niche: Sidz, Sanjay Shenoy, Entrepreneur on Fire (EoF)

1. Frameworks to find WHY
Are You Doing What You’re Uniquely Capable of, What
You Feel Placed Here on Earth to Do? Can You Be
Replaced? [Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans]

2. Various frameworks
● “Memories & Themes” method
● Goal Achievement Method by
Mark Forster
● Talent Stack by Scott Adams
● Ikigai & Hedgehog concept by Jim
Collins
● Don’t follow passion - Cal
Newport
● Naval ’s Founder-Product-Market
fit
● Jordan B.Peterson’s Self
authoring program
● Swadharma - Bhagvad Gita
● Skill-based niche: Sidz, Sanjay
Shenoy, Entrepreneur on Fire
(EoF)

3. Various frameworks
● Shyam’s “Memories & Themes”
method
● Goal Achievement Method by
Mark Forster
● Talent Stack by Scott Adams
● Ikigai & Hedgehog concept by Jim
Collins
● Don’t follow passion - Cal
Newport
● Naval ’s Founder-Product-Market
fit
● Jordan B.Peterson’s Self
authoring program
● Swadharma - Bhagvad Gita
● Skill-based niche: Sidz, Sanjay
Shenoy, Entrepreneur on Fire
(EoF)

4. Various frameworks
● Shyam’s “Memories & Themes”
method
● Goal Achievement Method by
Mark Forster
● Talent Stack by Scott Adams
● Ikigai & Hedgehog concept by Jim
Collins
● Don’t follow passion - Cal
Newport
● Naval ’s Founder-Product-Market
fit
● Jordan B.Peterson’s Self
authoring program
● Swadharma - Bhagvad Gita
● Skill-based niche: Sidz, Sanjay
Shenoy, Entrepreneur on Fire
(EoF)

5. Goal Achievement
Method
Mark Forster

6. What we want v. What we don’t want
● Often the best way to identify what you really do want is:
○ To start with what you don’t want,
○ And then consider what the positive opposite of that would be.
● Exercise 1: What you don’t want to BE
● Exercise 2: What you don’t want to HAVE
● Exercise 3: What you really like to have/ to do/ to be (Imagine no constraints)
● Evaluate the list, articulate a goal statement

7. Talent Stack
Scott Adams, Creator of ‘Dilbert’ comics

8. Talent Stack: Finding the Intersection
● There are 2 paths to extraordinary:
○ Become the best at one specific thing.
○ Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things
● “In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I’m hardly an artist.
● And I’m not any funnier than the average standup comedian who never makes it
big, but I’m funnier than most people.
● The magic is that few people can draw well and write jokes. It’s the combination of
the two that makes what I do so rare.
● And when you add in my business background, suddenly I had a topic that few
cartoonists could hope to understand without living it.”

9. Ikigai & Hedgehog
Concept

10. ● Step 1 (Passion):
○ What you love? (Ikigai)
○ What are you passionate about? (HC)
● Step 2 (Skill & Talent):
○ What are you good at?
○ What are you genetically encoded for?
● Step 3 (Value):
○ What the world needs?
○ What you can be paid for?
○ What are you engaged in that is of
social/ economic value?

11. Don’t Follow Your
PassionCal Newport
Doing something that they 'loved' but could not turn it into a viable career.

12. ● Starting point: Develop your skills
through training and deliberate
practice (blue circle).
● This will open up the better
opportunities (yellow circle).
● And once you begin to build a niche
in that area, you want to carve out
specific aspects of that work or
specific projects that give you a
sense of mission and meaning (red
circle)
'Skills Trump Passion'

13. Thank You