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The Chariot in the centre of the Matrix of Destiny

Mechanics. The business card is movement. You come in at a brisk pace, speak to the point, and people nearby get the feeling that the train is leaving and a decision is needed now. You are read as someone already on the way: who does not ask permission, does not collect opinions, but sets a goal and in a month reports a result, while the rest are still refining wording in the group chat. Speed is your pass. People forgive your sharpness because they see that something is happening with you, while nothing has happened around them for years. You cannot slow down. Standing still is physically harder for you than driving the wrong way.

Works when the goal is clear and visible: a launch, a move, sport, an expedition, your own business at the start. A crisis pulls you together, because it removes the question "what for". You manage people pulling in different directions better than most: you do not persuade, you carry. Where a team could not agree on direction for half a year, you set a deadline in two weeks, name the people responsible and roll out a first version, crooked but alive, and that moves everything else.

Breaks when the goal is gone and the habit of driving remains. Then movement becomes an end in itself: changing cities, jobs, partners every year and a half, and each time it seems that now the real thing will begin, while the same circle starts with new scenery. The second failure is people under the wheels. You overtake without looking back, and then wonder why there is nobody to applaud at the finish.

What it looks like:

• You buy the tickets while the family is still discussing whether to go at all, and cannot see why everyone is angry: you are solving the very problem they have been chewing on for half a year.
• In conversation you finish the other person's sentence. It is faster.
• Rest ends on the second day: an itch starts that time is going to waste, and by evening you are answering work emails from the sun lounger, telling yourself it is quick and that otherwise everything will stop.

What to do.

1. Once a quarter, answer one question in writing: where am I going and why. If there is no answer, brake instead of adding speed.
2. Count not the kilometres covered but what you have finished. Three completed things a year weigh more than thirty started.
3. Make a habit of stopping to ask your companions whether they are keeping up.

Takeaway: you are read as the one who is on the way; look now and then at who is still in the car.