And this is where the concept of a throughline really helps. By choosing a throughline you will automatically filter out much of what you might otherwise say. When I did the above experiment, I thought, What aspect of me should I focus on for a little more depth? The decision to go with “dreamer” made it easy to anchor version 2 on my time studying philosophy at Oxford and slash back most of the other parts of my life. If I had chosen “entrepreneur” or “nerd” or “global soul,” I’d have made different cuts.
