The Hidden Patterns Blocking Your Growth (And How to Find Them) with Patrick Walker
Patrick Walker, an executive coach, kept coming back to one idea in a recent conversation: the thing slowing your growth usually isn't effort or information, it's a blind spot your identity has quietly built a wall around. This worksheet walks you through finding one and loosening it.
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Where do you keep running into the same problem, the same argument, the same stall? Not the dramatic stuff. The thing that quietly repeats. What is it?
The Thing You Can't See
It's easy to get really good at one or two things and assume you're good at everything. In that stuck area, what might everyone around you already see about you that you've never quite let yourself look at?
The Fact That's Just a Habit
When you decide something is just who you are, you stop being able to change it. What have you been treating as fixed that might actually be a worn-in habit?
Loosen Your Grip
Real change gets easier when you hold who you are a little more loosely. Not reckless, just open. If you eased your grip here by 5 percent, which of these would you finally be willing to do?
Ask The One Person
Patrick says most of us think we take feedback well and don't. So pick the one person who'll tell you the truth without dressing it up. Write their name. Then write the single, plain question you'll ask them about this pattern.