263: Jonathan Fields - Uncovering The Work That Sparks You
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Fields (IG: @jonathanfields) is dad, husband, award-winning author, entrepreneur, host of top-ranked Good Life Project® podcast and creator of the Sparketypes™, a set of archetypes designed to reveal the source-code for the work you're here to do.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The most rewarding experience of Jonathan's life
- Rekindling his love for physically making things with his hands
- The joy of anticipation
- Yearning to create
- Why there's a growing community of makers and crafters
- Jonathan is 100% Maker
- What am I doing with my life?
- Creating the Sparketype assessment
- What drives you?
- Exploring the 10 different Sparketypes
- Maker - making ideas manifest
- Scientist – driven to solve
- Identifying your primary and shadow Sparketypes
- Maven – driven to learn
- Essentialist – driven to distill
- The difference between passion and Sparketypes
- Performer – driven to perform
- Warrior – drawn to lead
- Sage – driven to teach
- Advocate – driven to give voice to ideas or beings
- Advisor – driven to work in an intimate, hands-on way
- Nurturing – driven to give care
- Marni & Jesse's Sparketypes
- The Creation | Elevation Spectrum
- Any given Sparketype can be expressed in various ways
- Change the way you build your life
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Related links:
Take the FREE Sparketype Assessment
Follow Jonathan Fields on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Listen to Jonathan Fields previously on TUHP (episode #123)
Jonathan Fields - How to Live a Good Life (book)
Jonathan Fields - My Good Life Journal (book)
Jonathan Fields - Uncertainty (book)
Jonathan Fields - Career Renegade (book)
The Tim Ferriss Show - Mr. Money Mustache
Ryder Carroll - The Bullet Journal Method (book)
Listen to Ryan Nicodemus (The Minimalists) previously on TUHP (episode #132)
Listen to Dave Asprey (Bulletproof Radio) previously on TUHP (episode #159 & #61)
Listen to Chris Kresser (Revolution Health Radio) previously on TUHP (episode #247)
The Mental Illness Happy Hour (podcast)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The bigger idea is really that you never want to constrain yourself by a job or a title. |
| 0:05.2 | Nearly every sparkotype can be expressed in nearly every job or title once you understand |
| 0:11.4 | how to really look at things differently. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 263. |
| 0:22.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman, |
| 0:25.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:29.0 | This week our featured guest is a return guest, Jonathan Fields. |
| 0:32.0 | He's a dad, husband, award-winning author, entrepreneur, |
| 0:36.5 | host of top-rank Good Life Project Podcast, and creator The Sparkatypes, a set of |
| 0:41.7 | archetypes designed to reveal the source code for the work you're here to do. |
| 0:45.8 | We're so excited to have Jonathan back on the show. Make sure you go back and listen to |
| 0:49.7 | episode one twenty-three, where Jonathan shares more about his personal story and his book |
| 0:54.3 | had a live a good life and in general Jesse and I just love listening to Jonathan |
| 0:58.6 | he always gets into great information and he does on today's show where we talk about his new venture, the |
| 1:04.1 | spark types, where you can figure out what type of work lights you up or better yet the type of |
| 1:09.5 | work that sparks you up. So some of what we get into on today's show includes you'll find out why Jonathan |
| 1:15.6 | created the spark types and his drive behind this, what the 10 different |
| 1:20.4 | spark types are and you'll even find out what Jesse and I are and Jonathan |
| 1:24.1 | also reveals his as well. We get into how to distinguish between a hobby and a |
| 1:28.5 | career, why two people with the same sparka type can be fueled by different things and so much more. |
| 1:34.3 | We're so excited for you guys to listen to this episode and more importantly we're excited for you |
| 1:38.0 | guys to find out what your own spark type is, which you can do over on our show notes |
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