How to be your own MLP

Definition: Minimal loveable product: The human-centred approach to creating your identity by taking agency on what you love.

This will give you a step-by-step guide to unfold your true minimal loveable product. Are you up for a change for a greater you?

1. See the need for change

2. Create a burning platform

3. Unfreeze your mind: no-box-thinking

4. Formulate a positive hypothesis about yourself

5. Find enough arguments that you can validate and test

6. ideate, prototype, refine until your hypothesis is solid

7. create granular change steps to be implemented

8. celebrate short wins, allow to fail fast

9. ask for feedback constantly, review and reflect progress

10. love what you become by taking ownership over yourself

1. See the need for change

Weick “me” and “I” framework on shaping and creating identity

Too fast to grasp, too many options to find one path. Change is happening everywhere and while we try to keep up with the newest trends and hypes we barely realise that all this new information inhabits a deep insecurity about individual instincts, values and comfort. We get shaped more and more by high tech, digital innovations and global influencers, instead of being able to select one-by-one what we support and what supports ourselves. Our culture, be it in family, nation, work or community, always has a say in what we do and how we see ourselves. But how much of what we do of how we live is actually our own will and how much is normed by cultural influences? How do you know whether the job you currently do is fulfilling a higher purpose? Your higher purpose ? Are you enjoying each day because you are intrinsically motivated or is it more about money, prestige, security and easiness? Do you see and feel a need for change in your lifestyle, in your career, in any aspect of your life really? Think about the following three statements before you continue to the next section (coming up soon):

I wish my life would be… I like about my life… I will abandon of my life…