To mark the third anniversary of What Do You Know To Be True?, host Roger Kastner answers the three questions he's asked most often: what his 80+ guests have in common, how to find your superpower, and how to reinvent yourself to align with your purpose.

Drawing on a conversation with leadership coach Joel Monk, Roger explains why most superpowers begin as an unmet need, then lays out a seven-part framework for reinvention built on purpose, joy, hope, adaptability, well-being, courage, and community.

Key Takeaways
• Empathy, curiosity, and connection show up across nearly every conversation about superpowers, a "power" only becomes a superpower once it's used in service of others.
• In roughly nine out of ten conversations, a superpower traces back to an unmet need from earlier in a person's life.
• Purpose gives a superpower its direction, but joy is what fuels people to keep using it.
• Hope, using Charles R. Snyder's definition, means believing in your goals, your path, and your own agency to create change.
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs misses something: superpowers and reinvention only fully take shape in community, not in isolation.

Questions This Episode Answers
• What do the guests on What Do You Know To Be True? have in common? Across more than 80 conversations, empathy, curiosity, and connection are the throughline. Guests describe their superpower as something that only became a superpower once it moved from personal skill to service of other people.
• How do you find your superpower? In most cases, a superpower starts as an unmet need from earlier in life. A person finds something that addresses that need, keeps doing it because it's healing, and it becomes a superpower once they start using it to help others.
• How do you reinvent yourself to align with your purpose? Roger Kastner's framework points to seven building blocks: purpose, joy, hope, adaptability, well-being, courage, and community; with community as the piece most self-improvement models leave out.
• What's the critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in this episode? Roger argues it's too focused on the self. Real growth and reinvention happen in relationship, with a team or a community, not alone.

Chapters
0:00 Three Years of Conversations
1:11 The Common Thread of Superpowers
3:54 How to Discover Your Superpower
6:13 Aligning Work with Purpose
9:14 The Power of Community

▶️ Full Transcript available here: https://whatdoyouknowtobetrue.com/video/your-superpowers-start-with-something-missing-roger-kastner-on-the-reinvent-yourself-framework

Music in this episode by Amplify Music

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