Ten years
from today.
It's your birthday. Nine people are there. Real people, from different parts of your life.
When the evening settles, one by one, they stand up and say something about you. Not what they think you want to hear. What is actually true.
You'll write speeches for three real people from your life. Then you'll answer one more difficult question.
Adapted from The Birthday, in Finding Your Thread. You can leave an answer blank and come back to it.
Who speaks first?
Choose someone real. Family, friend, colleague — someone who has seen a part of your life.
Someone who knows another side of you.
Choose another real person. Write what you'd want them to say — about who you are, not just what you've achieved.
And one more voice.
It could be someone who knew you young. Someone you worked with. Someone whose opinion matters.
What would you not want them to say?
Not the worst version of yourself. Just the honest one.
The thing that's true right now — that you haven't fixed yet.
Your Signal Log.
These are your words, in one place. Nothing here is scored.
The full workbook continues through The Gap, Pressure and The Thread in Hand. The Interactive Edition, which keeps your answers, your progress and your thread in one private place, is in development.