# Your Primary Sparketype ®  ## The Maker Your Primary Sparketype reveals the essential nature or "driver" of the work you're here to do (whether it's the work you get paid to do, or not). When you do the work of your Primary Sparketype, you come alive with purpose and, fully-expressed in a healthy way, deepen into meaning, flow, connection and joy.  As a Maker, creation is your call. You are most alive and engaged when you are making things. Starting with an idea, then turning it into a thing that reflects the taste and sense of possibility you have in your head, your vision of what could be, this is what you're here to do. You've likely known this since you were a kid. It's what you've always naturally gravitated to, what you lost yourself in. What you make doesn't have to be a physical thing, it could be an experience or interaction. It could be digital, words, numbers, code. It might be a moment, work of music, event, company, business venture or anything else. The common element is that, for you, the part of it that is the purest emanation of your reason for being is process of making or creating. You find yourself losing interest the moment the making/hyper-creation element of any endeavour fades. Interestingly, your creations may have a tremendous impact on others. You enjoy this. It is a beautiful "by-product" that also is essential if you want to turn making into your living. But, when you're really being honest, it's not the essential reason you do it. The fact that it moves people, and the depth of that effect, is more a measuring stick of your capabilities and ability to fully-express your vision than an expression of your reason for being. ## Your Shadow Sparketype ®  ### The Essentialist Remember, your Primary Sparketype (above) represents the essential nature of the work you're here to do. Your core driver of purpose, passion, expression and flow in work and life. Your Shadow Sparketype, on the other hand, is also a big part of you. Some may feel its call nearly as strongly. Your Shadow Sparketype most often reveals the work that you may well enjoy and have developed a high level of skill around, BUT it is also largely taken up in service of doing the work of your Primary Sparketype better.  Your Shadow Sparketype is The Essentialist, which means you are driven by, and find a deep sense of satisfaction in the pursuit of simplifying and creating order. But, for you, when you're really being honest, that drive is almost always in service of doing the work of your Primary Sparketype at the higher possible level. It's more a means than an end.  If you're interested, you can see a much fuller description of your Shadow Sparketype, along with a ton more highly-detailed information tailored to your unique Sparketype in the Sparketype Mastery Guide (more below). ## Your Anti Sparketype ®  ### The Sage Your Anti Sparketype is the third element of your Sparketype Profile. This is the type of effort or work that comes least easily to you, is the heaviest lift, feels like it takes the most effort even if, objectively, it’s not that hard, and requires the greatest amount of recovery for you. You may well have to do the work of your Anti Sparketype as part of your job or life, or you may be able to delegate it. And, you may even develop skills around it and get good and accomplished at it. That can help you feel more ease around it. You may also reframe it as simply a necessary part of doing the work that fills you and accept it as such. These shifts may make it feel a bit easier or like it’s less of a drain, but, at the end of the day, it will almost always be more on the emptying/mandatory side of the work spectrum than the joyful/Sparking side. And will likely still take more than it gives and require more effort and recovery than the work of your Primary or Shadow. The Sage impulse is all about illumination, sharing wisdom, often through a process of teaching and education. When this appears as your Anti Sparketype, that often means that you’ll commit to some process of illumination on a level that is “demanded” in order to do something else (usually the work of your Primary/Shadow), but doing work of the Sage is your least strong impulse, it’s more emptying than filling. The sooner you can “do what you need to,” then be off to the work of your Primary/Shadow, the better. As noted above, that doesn’t mean this work is not important, it just means, the same way the work of your Primary/Shadow tends to call and fill you, the work of your Anti Sparketype tends to repel and empty you. You are about to discover​ ​your Sparketype™, the essential nature of work that fills you with meaning and lets you feel fully-expressed, alive with​ ​purpose and absorbed in flow ("sparked"). Your Sparketype serves as one of the single biggest clues in your quest to figure out what to do with what the poet, Mary Oliver, called your "one wild and precious life." ​ https://sparketype.com/sparketest/ #Media/Books/productivity