Your Blueprint for Life™
If you're committed to continuous growth and you love learning about yourself and your strengths through personality assessments like Myers-Briggs, Clifton Strengths, HBDI, the Enneagram, and any one of 2,500+ personality tests used by 80% of Fortune 500 companies, get ready to have your mind blown by the most powerful tool you will ever meet to unlock your unique potential — it's called Human Design.
What is Human Design?
Human Design is your differentiated energetic blueprint derived from two moments in your life story: your time of birth and about three months prior. It's a deeply-layered, logical synthesis of Eastern and Western philosophies, disciplines, and traditions, including the I Ching, a variation on the Hindu Chakras and the Kabbalah Tree of Life, Astrology, the 64 genetic codons, and quantum mechanics.
It's a fusion of ancient wisdom and modern science that brings clarity, relief, hope, and calm to whatever confusion or malaise or self-sabotage you may be experiencing in your life.
When you meet your Human Design, it ushers in a new chapter of self-acceptance, potential, and possibility in your vocation and relationships — both personal and professional. You recognize all that you truly are, and let go of everything that you're not (and have probably been punishing yourself about for decades). Your Human Design gives you permission to become the most concentrated, potent, and magnetic version of the true you.
From friction to flow — the practical side of Human Design
The world of quantum physics has opened up a whole new level of what it means to be human. While our physical bodies are comprised of 94 naturally ocurring elements, from hydrogen and nitrogen to chlorine and magnesium, we are also pure energy and movement at the subatomic level.
Human Design is basically a blueprint for how your energy operates — from the way you naturally attract or repel others, to the way you "metabolize" everything from information to experiences to spaces, to the way you're designed to "plug into" other people in order to become something more.
Your Human Design chart is like having an individualized operating manual, and when applied with full awareness and understanding of how to activate it, it's the single most powerful tool to up-level every part of your life. When combined with the energetic wayfinding mechanism hidden in your specific Gene Keys (think of this as an overlay on your Human Design Chart) that helps you diagnose your energetic frequency (or vibration) on a scale of victim to empowerment, you simplify and supercharge whatever transformation you're wanting to make in your life.
When you make decisions in full awareness of your Human Design, life gets inexplicably easier as resistance melts away. The science may not be fully understood yet — but that's what the quantum physicists are on a mission to figure out.
Strategic benefits of living your Human Design
Once you get past the esoteric origins and off-putting jargon of traditional Human Design (and your mind will do everything in its power to convince you there's nothing to see here), you unlock your most powerful potential by removing the mental and emotional blocks that keep you stuck in self-sabotaging cycles or limited in your relationships and success.
If you know there's untapped potential in you that you haven't been able to access no matter how much you've tried, keep reading to learn how knowing your Human Design can support you.
Human Design supports you in:
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There are five energy types: Manifestor (9.7%), Generator (35.8%), Manifesting Generator (30.4%), Projector (22.6%), and Reflector (1.4%). Each comes with its own guidelines and wayfinding mechanism for saying 'yes' and 'no' to people, situations, and life. When we use our energy correctly and consistently, we attract the people, situations, and opportunities that match our high-vibration energetic frequency. Some energy types are self-generating, while others need more rest. When we are operating in alignment with our energy type, we optimize our energy in every waking (and even sleeping) moment.
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This is, hands-down, the most powerful tool in the Human Design toolkit. When combined with the consistent and correct use of your energy, your decision-making "authority" unlocks every other part of your Human Design chart. But while this may be the most powerful driver of your Human Design, many of us are blocked by a life-time of ego-driven programming that prevents us from recognizing or embracing it.
Your unique Human Design helps you reconnect with your higher source of innate intelligence or wisdom. For some, it's felt in the body or in their environment; for others, it's in hearing themselves speak; for others, it changes with movement of lunar energy. Regardless of the "authority," the great leap is in learning to make the mind an ally instead of a bullying, bossy, "know-it-all" messenger conditioned by the underlying fears, insecurities, and low self-worth of the ego. This is where the greatest payoff is — but it also demands the greatest trust fall.
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We all come into this life with a particular set of gifts or talents that are our contribution to the stone soup that is humanity and its evolution. Some of us are here to disrupt (one of my clients — a very successful VC who has backed breakthrough technology, security, and communications companies since the 1990's), some of us are here to create (another client who is a serial entrepreneur and industrial engineer and inventor), others are here as power-brokers (another client who is the most highly-skilled diplomat I have ever witnessed in my life) or trustees (another VC client who quietly and consistently delivers fund results that outpace her tech-bro peers).
Having awareness of our unique gifts allows us to bring structure to our aspirations and ambitions. It allows us to prioritize what comes naturally to us, which makes everything we do easier, more enjoyable, and much, much more successful.
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We're here to co-exist in the world-wide-web of humanity. None of us is equipped with all the talents necessary to exist or to contribute to our existence, and it's our genetic imperative to want what we're not in order to become more. We're here to co-create, and that's where Human Design gets incredibly powerful when you become aware of your energetic definition and where you have untapped potential.
When you live according to your energy type and design, you naturally become more accepting of others — you recognize that the most selfish act is expecting someone else to be what you want them to be instead of who they naturally are. You also recognize the quantum unlock when working with some people over others. This is what I have with my business partner, Tara Tallman Sollman (9+ years at humanifesto studios, and co-founders of our new brand extension for Human Design thought leadership and coaching, to be authentic) — we share seven electromagnetic channels (where each of us brings the opposite harmonic gate to create a talent or trait).
When we realized this a year ago it demystified why each of us had so much difficulty finding the right co-creator for so long, and why it has always been so effortless and easy and powerful and fun to do great work together. We are the definition of The Quantum Two — where the two of us produce the quality, quantity, and speed of work in what it would normally take a team of five to produce.
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Your Human Design includes a North Star. You can choose to live it or leave it, but it's basically hidden in your chemistry and is always silently pulling you toward it. When you know what it is and make sense of how your life can deliver on it — you experience a level of inner knowing that is impossible to forget.
This is the big "to what end" of Human Design. This is why living in alignment with your energy and decision-making matters — because you are creating a legacy and you want to leave this life without regret. As a dear friend mused, it's about dying and leaving nothing of life on the table.
This is also reflected in the infamous essay-turned-best-seller, Regrets of the Dying, by Bronnie Ware, where the #1 regret is "I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." That quote always takes my breath away, that someone finally realizes at the end of their life that it was never really theirs — because they gave it away. This quote cuts deeply because of my own unique Human Design. It includes deep listening, individuality, self-empowerment, and a highly-sensitive nervous system that picks up other people's emotions — it means I feel the wounding and the pain of others deeply.
As one super successful and influential client shared when learning about his North Star in the context of a larger reading:
”Your observation that my core wound is being forced out of Eden and that I'm constantly looking for Edenic things on the planet and wishing about Edenic things and that the biggest shift I needed to make is to realize that I myself am Eden, was just a knock-out blow away insight, and it has been shaping my aspirations and clarity about what I do and how to show up in the most authentic version of me.”
Not only is he more aligned with why he's here and how his design supports that, but now he has the confidence to move on from situations that are no longer aligned with where his energy wants to take him.
You are so much more amazing than you "think."
If you're "Human Design curious," the first step is getting your chart. But that's not really going to unlock it for you — only deep understanding and awareness will. There are loads of qualified practitioners who can help you interpret and navigate the unique you, but then it's your job to experiment with your design — nobody else can do that for you.
