Exercise: What is your work really about?

The deeper meaning underneath what you do — and why finding it changes everything

Here’s a question most people never ask themselves deeply enough.

Not what do you do - you know that answer. But what does what you do actually make possible?

Because there are two layers to every piece of work. There’s the surface - the thing you can describe in a sentence, the tangible thing that goes on a website header, the thing people nod along to w…