Giving care is your call. You are deeply empathetic. You've been this way for as long as you can remember. You see others in need and you feel called to help, in whatever way you can, take care of them, relieve suffering. Sometimes to the point where you give so much, there's nothing left for you.

Many Nurturers find themselves in helping professions, but your ability to offer empathy, compassion, give care to those in need of help can and does cross any field, industry or title. Nurturers often find a powerful outlet in their non-professional pursuits, expressed in your desire to help friends, strangers or even entire populations whose pain you simply cannot witness without doing something about it. When you have the opportunity to give care, and you see the difference it makes, even if you're never directly thanked. 

Distilling, organizing and simplifying is your call. It doesn't matter where you go, whether at work or home or on vacation (or a restaurant, store, experience, etc), you see chaos, mess, complexity and it triggers a near-primal urge to create order and simplicity.

It could be complex information, ideas, spreadsheets or data-sets, toys in a room, items in a display, clothes on a rack, books on a shelf, physical or digital, it doesn't really matter. Your brain immediately goes into distill and simplify mode. You think in systems and processes designed to create space, order and efficiency. It's what breathes you.

What's so funny to you, as well, is that so many others find the process of turning chaos into simplicity and order a burden. For you, sure it's work, but it's also where you find your fullest expression and drop into bliss.

Fascination is your call. You latch onto a topic, field or industry and devour everything you can know about it. Staying "surface level" just isn't an option for you. You are driven to learn, to discover, to ferret out information, wisdom, knowledge for no other purpose than the joy of learning and knowing something as fully and deeply as you can.

Your Maven's fascination and yearning to learn might be expressed more generally, as a perpetual curiosity about everything and everyone.  For Maven's it's not necessarily about what you "do" with your rapidly-accumulating reservoir of wisdom. What you learn may be useful to the others, or not. When it is, you enjoy sharing it. It is a beautiful potential "by-product". But, when you're really being honest, it's not the essential reason you do it. The fact that it has value to others is more a measuring stick of the depth of your knowledge and ability to fully-express what you've learned. Your deepest driver is the quest to learn.

Teaching or "illuminating" is your call. You live to share ideas, knowledge and experiences with others in a way that lifts them up and leaves them changed. That means, of course, that you have to know something before you can teach it. So, you regularly seek to learn and study, you may even pour yourself into solving big problems or making things, and there is a certain genuine satisfaction in that. You want to have more and better wisdom to turn around and teach. 

When you see the lights of discovery go on in the faces of others, it's magic. But, for you, it's not enough to simply "convey information," you want those you teach or mentor to truly "get it," and you want to be engaged and inspired at every step along the way. It's about the process as much as the awakening. So you work tirelessly and with a sense of mission to find ways to share what you know that create genuine understanding and bring students, mentees, colleagues on a journey of discovery along with you.

Bringing things to life in a performative way is your call. When you take the stage, actual or metaphorical, in the presence of others, and perform, either alone or as part of an ensemble, troop, team or any other format, that is your everything. 

When we talk about the Performer as Sparketype, we take a much broader lens. It's not contained by a traditional channel or genre, it is about the ability to "express who you are and what you do in a performative way." 

Performer can also easily translate to athletics, performance art, public speaking, facilitating business trainings, workshops, events, running meetings, teaching, leading a team or company or nearly any other setting. The central feature is that thing that lights you up more than any other part, is the performative aspect of whatever you do, and the reaction you get from those who are moved by what you've performed.

Creation is your call. You are most alive and engaged when you are making things. Starting with an idea, then turning it into a thing that reflects the taste and sense of possibility you have in your head, your vision of what could be, this is what you're here to do. 

What you make doesn't have to be a physical thing, it could be an experience or interaction. It could be digital, words, numbers, code. It might be a moment, work of music, event, company, business venture or anything else. The common element is that, for you, the part of it that is the purest emanation of your reason for being is process of making or creating. 

Interestingly, your creations may have a tremendous impact on others. You enjoy this. It is a beautiful "by-product" that also is essential if you want to turn making into your living.

Coaching, mentoring and advising is your call. You light up when you play the role of the trusted advisor. The person who swoops in, develops sustained, personal, relationships, most often with individuals or small groups, cultivates trust and confidence and creates the safety needed to coach or guide people, in a hands-on, engaging way toward a desired end.

You thrive in the interactive process of guiding people, in a personalized way, through growth, problem-solving, application and achievement. Your true aspiration is not just to get people to the place they yearn to be, but to also help them develop their own inner-trust and self-reliance, so that, when the time is right, you can step away, watch them soar.

Because of this, you can often walk into nearly any setting, industry or field and fairly quickly feel at home. You just know your ability to apply your unique lens, focused awareness, and skills as an advisor and mentor are robust enough to give anyone what they need in nearly any endeavor.