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The
Possibility
Prophet
You’re the Possibility Prophet—the one who sees what others can’t yet imagine.
While others freeze in uncertainty, you scan the horizon and spot openings, connections, and futures worth reaching for. You summon boundless energy and optimism to bring others with you to the mountaintop—and when things go sideways, you always find another path.
But that same brilliance can become a shield. You move so quickly toward what’s next that you miss what’s right beneath your feet. You might be standing above untold wealth for your community—but by digging a hundred shallow holes, you never reach its depth.
Your next level of leadership is the courage to stay, to feel, to focus. To channel your drive into presence. When you do, your energy transforms. Your vision becomes shared momentum—carrying others into the future only you could see.
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Core Courage:
Vision
Motto:
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keywords:
Bold • Energetic • Expansive
Gift to the Collective:
Seeing the future clearly enough that others can step into it with you
Shadow Tendency:
Overcommitment and avoidance
Limiting Beliefs:
If I slow down, I’ll miss something. If I feel this, I’ll fall apart. If I choose, I close off options.
Legacy Figures:
Benjamin Franklin, Amelia Earhart, Maya Angelou
Growth Path:
Focus your fire. Build the systems to follow through and feel your emotions fully—so you can connect deeply and bring your vision to life.
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The Myth of Aligned Values
They sat across from each other in the strategy session, arms crossed, nodding politely—but not really hearing. The Possibility Prophet wanted to move. Fast. Propose bold policy. Break the mold. The Guardian of the People wanted to slow down. Anticipate risk. Secure buy-in. Protect the mission. By the end of the hour, both walked out frustrated—certain the other was the problem.
Our culture tells us this is misalignment. That someone failed the purity test. That we should cleanse the team and cut the apostate. That everyone in the party must agree. That we shouldn’t date someone from “the other side.” That difference is disloyalty.
This is bullshit—and it’s dangerous. Every government built on a single ideology has ended in collapse or catastrophe. Groupthink is a cancer, not a cure.
We don’t need shared values. We need shared purpose. And the courage to trust. To see each other as human. To question our own assumptions. To look inward before lashing outward. To hold creative tension instead of retreating into the safety of sameness.
Change that endures doesn’t come from purity—but from friction held in shared mission. Philadelphia, 1776—not Moscow, 1936. The visionary needs the pragmatist. The innovator needs the protector. When the Possibility Prophet welcomes resistance as refinement—not rejection—and the Guardian sees urgency not as recklessness, but as momentum to shape and test, something rare emerges: outcomes greater than the sum of their parts. That’s not compromise. That’s transformation.
How are you complicit in creating the conditions you claim not to want? How is it going? And are you brave enough to consider leadering differently?
Contemplative Questions:
How are you complicit in creating the very conditions you claim to resist? How’s it working? And are you brave enough to lead differently?
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