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Part 2 · Build Your Purpose StoryLesson 2.2 · 2 min readFree lesson, opening

Name the fight

Everything in the Purpose Story comes down to one discipline: naming the fight specifically enough that it is impossible to wave away.

Make the problem real

Four moves.

The substitution test, passed

Here is the substitution test passed. Clara does not fight for nature, anyone can say that, and the land knows what to do anyway. She fights for the specific person an entire industry has stranded: the landowner who knows something is wrong and has been handed only complexity. A competitor whose whole model depends on restoration staying expert-only could not lift that sentence, because it would indict them. That is the test. If your fight could be copied onto a competitor website without becoming false, it is a category card, not a purpose, and specificity is the cure. There is one more refinement, about what you choose to fight, that separates purposes that last from purposes that age badly. That is next.

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