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10. What Are You Designed to Do?
Why purpose is about pattern, not passion. Jeff DeGraff Ph.D.
Key points
- Purpose comes from design, not desire—where your gifts, skills, and context align.
- Your job isn’t your identity; it only expresses your deeper pattern.
- Stress reveals your design. How you act under pressure shows your true strengths.
- Design evolves—your gifts grow through practice, reflection, and service.
4 Ways to Discover What You’re Designed to Do
- Study your defaults under pressure.
- Look beyond your job title.
- Experiment, don’t declare.
- Refine through service.
When stress rises, notice what you instinctively do. That pattern—your natural mode of problem-solving or connecting—is a clue to your design.
As Viktor Frankl (1959) observed, purpose is not found in what we get from life but in what life expects from us. Your profession may be a vehicle, but your design is the engine.
Treat your design as a prototype. Try new contexts, collaborators, and challenges. Growth, as Dweck (2006) reminds us, is iterative.
The surest test of a gift is its value to others. When your work creates coherence, insight, or uplift in others, you’ve likely found alignment between your design and your purpose.
To ask What am I designed to do? is not to surrender freedom—it is to locate it. It means working with the grain of your nature rather than against it, shaping your life as a craftsman shapes wood: respecting the knots, the curves, the tensile strength that make it beautiful.
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1934) once wrote, “Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.” That place—the confluence of gift, growth, and grace—is where design becomes destiny.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/innovation-you/202601/what-are-you-designed-to-do