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Innate Edge Clues

Status / authority: Current client-readable evidence-intake guide
Effective date: 2026-08-04
Dependencies: ../LEGANT_METHOD_REFERENCE.md §4; the linked assessment and feedback forms
Supersedes: The earlier ARC-era DOCX intake guide, which is no longer kept here; it is recoverable from the frozen ARC release.

This guide collects evidence for an Innate Edge working model. The assessments are inputs, not the product or a verdict about the person.

Complete the linked forms only when Chris asks you to. Responses, prior assessment results, third-party names, and contact details are private client data. Share someone else's contact information only with their consent.

Baseline assessment

Assessments

Personality assessment: BFAS

Values assessment: PVQ-RR

Previous assessments

Personal reflection questions

Life story

  1. Tell your life story to date.
    - What were the major turning points?
    - Include dates for a rough timeline.

Early memories

  1. What are some of your earliest memories?
    - What happened?
    - How did you feel at the time?
  2. Who did you admire while growing up? They may be real people or fictional characters from books, television, or other media.
    - What qualities did you admire?
  3. What did you love to practise or work on as a child?
    - Which classes did you especially enjoy?
    - Which hobbies or games held your attention?
  4. Did you see anything as especially unfair or wrong while growing up?

Project history

  1. Walk through your work and extracurricular history. For each job, hobby, or project:
    - What first drew you to it, and what were you trying to achieve?
    - If it was a job, what were you hired to do? Did people pull you into other roles?
    - Which accomplishments made you proud? Tell the story.
    - What were the low points? What frustrated you or felt like a chore?
    - Who did you work with? What might they describe as your strengths and weaknesses?
    - If they agree to be contacted and you are comfortable sharing their details, may Chris contact any of them?
    - Why did you leave, quit, or move on?

Challenges and triumphs

  1. Tell the story of decisions or bold moves you are especially glad you made.
    - What was wrong with the status quo?
    - What alternatives did you consider?
    - What compelled you to choose?
    - What made the decision consequential?
    - What might have been lost or wasted if you had not acted?
  2. Tell the story of work you are especially proud of: a project, creation, achievement, award, or obstacle overcome.
    - What was the situation?
    - What problem or Violation — something you saw as wrong, unfair, or wasteful — were you addressing?
    - What did you do?
    - What abilities did you use?
    - What made the result meaningful?
  3. Tell the story of a time you stumbled, struggled, or failed.
    - What did you learn?
    - How did you respond afterward?
  4. What kind of team or person would you find harder to work with than most people would?
  5. If you could remove one recurring part of how you operate, what would it be?
    • Where does it most reliably create problems? Give examples.
    • What do you keep trying to fix about yourself?

Energy and engagement

  1. Which activities make you lose track of time?
    • What are you doing when this happens?
    • What holds your attention?
  2. What are useful things you built that nobody asked for? 
  3. Which books, movies, shows, podcasts, YouTube channels, or websites have you loved, recently or long-term?
    • What makes them enjoyable to you?
    • Pick your favourite story and tell it to me in your own words.
  4. What do you do that:
    • other people sometimes make fun of;
    • other people find boring, tedious, or overwhelming, but you do not; or
    • you have always done too much of, even though it feels natural to you?
  5. What have you shown yourself to be unusually good at?
    • When have people said, "You're really good at that. I could never do that"?
    • Give examples of how you used those abilities.
    • What are you not good at or not interested in doing professionally?
  6. If you landed on a new planet with a group of strangers, what contribution would you naturally offer first?
  7. If your way of operating were a vehicle, what would it be and why?
  8. Do you have any favourite sayings, quotations, or mottos?

Tensions and values

  1. What injustices or forms of waste especially bother you?
    • What do you find yourself repeatedly complaining about or debating?
    • What potential, time, resources, opportunity, or talent do you see being wasted?
    • Share specific examples or stories.
    • What exactly bothers you about them?
  2. Which traits or behaviours in other people are hardest for you to tolerate?
    • What specific behaviours bother you?
    • What examples come to mind?
    • How do you try to behave differently?

Role models and inspirations

  1. Who do you admire? For each person:
    • Who are they?
    • Which qualities do you admire? Which do you not admire?
    • In what ways would you like to become more like them?
  2. Alternatively, imagine a personal board of directors. Who would you invite to help guide your life?
    • Who are they and what have they done?
    • Which qualities would you want their help to develop or apply?
  3. Think about your own responsibilities as a role model.
    • What kind of person do you want to be in your relationships, work, or community?
  4. What would your harshest credible critics say about you?

Dreams and future vision

  1. If you could pause time and study or apprentice in anything, what would you choose?
  2. If you could make one thing right in the world, what would it be?
    • What would change?
    • What would the improved world look or feel like?
    • Why this issue instead of another one?
  3. Imagine the CEO of Humanity offered you any role and the resources to pursue it. What role would you create?
    • What would you be trying to fix or make possible?
    • What would you do day to day?
    • What would success change?
  4. If you had to increase your impact tenfold during the next 12 months, what would you do differently?
  5. Imagine your child or a close friend giving your eulogy.
    • What impact would you want them to say you had?
    • Which qualities would you want them to mention?

Feedback from others

  1. Ask people who know you: "What role would you give me if you were CEO of Humanity?"
    • Use the CEO of Humanity feedback form when Chris assigns it.
    • Before you see anyone's answers, fill out the same form yourself, answering the way you think one person you asked will. In "Your name", write "Self-prediction for [their name]".
    • Ask before sharing another person's name or contact details.