The Originator
Energy peaks at Inquiring and Inventing.
A sample curve. People with this type share where their top two peaks sit; how high they go, and the shape of the rest, varies person to person.
You live at the top of the airspace, where the work is still all possibility. You are the person who notices what everyone else has stopped questioning, and then, rather than just naming the gap, you fill it with something new. Ideas arrive faster than you can write them down, and the ones that excite you most are the ones no one has tried. You are at home in the unformed early stage of anything, before there is a plan, a deadline, or a single right answer.
At their best
You open territory no one knew was there. You reframe a stale problem and produce the idea that makes the whole room lean in, and teams rely on you to see around the corner and generate the raw material that everything downstream is built from.
Watch out
Your energy lives in the clouds, so you can keep generating long after it is time to choose, commit, and build. Without someone to ground your ideas, the best of them stay theoretical. Guard against falling in love with the next possibility at the expense of finishing the last one.
Who they help most
People whose energy drains at Inquiring and Inventing. For them, The Originator is the ideal partner: their energy peaks exactly where those people dip.
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