Becoming You is a methodology and program created by Professor Suzy Welch to help people discover their purpose in life which is found at the intersection of their values, interests, and aptitudes.
The Becoming You Methodology is founded on the construct that your purpose lies at the intersection of what you want to do, what you can do, and what you should do. In other words, your values, your aptitudes, and the areas of economic growth that call you emotionally and intellectually.
The intersection of which is, in Becoming You’s terminology, your “Area of Transcendence,” which Professor Suzy Welch describes as “the right-fitting, soul-filling, and enlivening destination of the beautiful, messy, complex, and precious journey we call life.”
This methodology begins with identifying each participant’s unique core values – the wants, motivations, and desires that drive your decisions and actions. Next, we look at your aptitudes. What are you good at? Like, better-than-most-people good at? We can spend our whole lives not knowing the true answer to those questions. Take the mystery out of your cognitive and emotional strengths so that you can begin to identify which kinds of jobs and industries are the best match. The final aspect is to expose the often overlooked industries where opportunity abounds, and elucidate the most notable megatrends on the horizon. Even if you enter Becoming You thinking you know what kind of work you want to pursue, this portion is intended to “open the aperture” on what constitutes an economically viable interest.
