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The World in the centre of the Matrix of Destiny

Mechanics. You look like a person for whom everything has come together. Not because you are rich or calm: there is a completeness in you, a sense that all this is already familiar to you and you have nothing to prove, and it is read even at twenty, which is why peers treat you as an elder and elders as an equal. Different things get along in you. You move easily from world to world: you talk with professors and drivers equally freely, settle into a foreign country in three days, and in a group of strangers become one of them within an hour. You have fewer borders than most.

Works when you need to connect the different and work broadly: international projects, culture, teaching, consulting, travel, any task that needs a person who understands several languages of life at once. You feel scale and are not frightened by it. A big task pulls you together rather than weighs on you. A small one, on the contrary, makes you fall apart: three days of monotonous work wear you out more than a month on a project where you must keep five countries and eight disagreeing people in your head.

Breaks when breadth replaces depth. You are a little everywhere, everything is interesting, everything comes out at the level of "not bad", and none of it goes deep, and at forty it turns out that behind you are twelve fields and not one where you are first. The second failure is quieter: the sense of completeness devalues effort. Why try, if it is not bad anyway, and life goes evenly, without failures but also without that for which people get up at six in the morning.

What it looks like:

• In any group you are one of them, but you have two truly close people, and both are far away.
• You are called where incompatible people must be connected, and you usually manage.
• What you start you bring to a decent level and stop there: beyond that you have to dig, and digging is boring.

What to do.

1. Choose one thing and go into it for three years. Deep, not wide.
2. Check whether you have replaced closeness with goodwill to everybody.
3. Set a stretch task once a year. You need scale, otherwise you fall asleep.

Takeaway: you are welcome everywhere and everything is open to you; pick one place and dig in, or life will pass tangentially.