Life Capsule 2.3 Climb - Gain Perspective
Stage 2.3 Climb - Gain Perspective
Mission Outcome
By the end of Climb, you will have a work philosophy or professional statement and a vocation venn.
Estimated Steady Voyager Time
Record your start time in the Mission Time Log.
Between 1760 and 1762, the Swiss physicist and polymath Leonhard Euler, considered one of the most brilliant and productive minds in history, wrote a series of 234 letters to the young German princess Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt. The letters were remarkable in how different they were from society at that time. Germany was Ständegesellschaft - a society of orders - a rigid hierarchy that concentrated power and prestige in the hands of the nobles, estate owners, and clergy. Middle classes and peasants had minimal say and were largely excluded from intellectual currents shaping philosophy and science.
Euler’s letters were private lessons for an intelligent but non-specialist teenager in astronomy, philosophy, physics, and related subjects written in natural conversational language. Their clarity and accessibility were so successful that they became widely used in ‘female academies’ and other educational settings for the broader public.
Euler was skilled at taking highly complex topics and distilling them into simple structures of core concepts and relationships that a curious layperson could grasp. Euler’s diagrams, some drawing from as far back as 15th century thought, were the precursor to John Venn’s venn diagrams. The venn diagram, seen for centuries as a helpful, visual heuristic, illustrates relationships between sets and is used in linguistics, logic, and a ____ of other
In this Climb stage, you’ll utilize this diagram as a way to zoom out on your work and life, treating your career as a whole system rather than a series of isolated jobs. By mapping what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for—you begin to see how your past roles, skills, and interests naturally intersect. As the plane climbs, your field of view expands: you start to gain a clearer sense of the conditions under which your work feels both meaningful and sustainable. You’re gaining altitude—less noise, more clarity—which prepares you to translate this mapped terrain into a work philosophy, a professional statement, and a vocation venn you can carry forward and share from memory.
Step 1. Map Your Ikigai
What’s sometimes referred to as the Ikigai framework, an illustrative method for viewing your work, fulfillment, and purpose, is a venn diagram that can be leveraged to find alignment between core themes and values. There has been some debate about whether Ikigai is truly this use of the visual mapping. Whatever you choose to call it, for the purposes of this capsule, the approach is to view it as a general framework for self-discovery and understanding. In this step you’ll begin to map your own version of the the four circles:
- What you love
- What you are good at
- What the world needs
- What you can be paid for
In your AI Ally
- Title your prompt ‘What I love’. List 5 - 10 activities that you enjoy and would do regardless of whether you get paid for it or not. Try to use concrete verbs such as solve, mentor, teach, etc.
- Title your prompt ‘What I’m good at’. List all of your skills and abilities that you and/or others recognize that you excel in, are unique to you, or feel ‘natural’ to you. Include your career, education, and both hard skills (e.g. preparing coffee, data analysis) and soft skills (e.g. supporting, listening). If you already have a list on your curriculum vitae you can upload that to start. Select the dropdown arrow for a matrix of options.
- Title your prompt ‘What the world needs’. Add the following links and ask your AI Ally to provide a ‘needs list’ of the problems that are facing your community, society, and world today and how you might rise up to meet those challenges.
- Americans See Health Care Costs, Deficit, Inflation as Big Problems Facing the Nation
- Structural problems of Latin American cities 450 years after Caracas’ foundation
- The Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient
- List of Global Issues
- Title your prompt ‘What I can be paid for’. List the field or industry that you work in and any other areas or industries that you see as showing growth in the marketplace. and ask your AI Ally to provide other areas of your community and country that are experiencing job expansion. Then ask your AI Ally to do a deep research on the future of the job market and provide an ‘income list’.
- Labor Automation Forecasting Hub
- 40% of Job Skills Will Change by 2030
- Deloitte 2026 Human Capital Trends
- PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer
- bls.gov
- https://www.oecd.org/en.html
- https://www.ilo.org/
- Enter the following prompt:
Using the previous prompts from what I love to what I can be paid for, please provide a breakdown of the following:
- Passion – What I love.
- Mission – What the world needs.
- Profession – What I’m good at.
- Vocation – What I can be paid for.
Provide clear descriptions for each of these four, and also headings with descriptions for each of the six areas of overlap inside the Ikigai diagram. Areas of overlap:
- Passion – Overlap of what you love and what you’re good at.
- Mission – Overlap of what you love and what the world needs.
- Profession – Overlap of what you’re good at and what you can be paid for.
- Vocation – Overlap of what the world needs and what you can be paid for.
- Copy/paste the response. You’ll use it in the next step.
Step 2. Studio: Infographic
- Go to your NotebookLM Studio and select the arrow on the Infographic button (do not select the button itself).
- Choose language
- Choose orientation
- Choose visual style
- Choose level of detail
- Choose sources (recommendation: deselect all and select applicable sources)
- Enter the following prompt:
Please use the following summary (copy/paste the summary from your AI Ally):
With your AI Ally as your co-navigator, you’ve been able to translate what can seem like scattered experiences into a clearer vision for your vocation. Mapping the four core circles of your work
Final Step: Mission Time Log
Record your end time in the Mission Time Log.
Checkpoint 3
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