One of my favorite personal brand exercise is a 2 x 60 seconds sprint where you list out all your "identities" and everything you're "interested in." Don't let your fingers stop and just let your brain fill out whatever comes to mind. Aim for it to grow as long as you can let it (and then cut down before sharing if you wish to do so). Aim to diverge from typical self-introduction "labels" that you would see in the wild.
Here's mine:
Identities...
- conscious-maximalist
- creative-capitalist
- poet-programmer
- life-long learner
- retired filmmaker
- amateur food critic
- photographer
- storyteller
- multitasker
- fast walker
- shower philosopher
- social media stalker
- collector
- ice cream connoisseur
- thing-tester
- only child
- deal junkie
- side quest junkie
- post-modernist
Interested in...
- great deals
- human-centered design
- spreadability
- posthumanism
- postcolonialism
- deconstruction
- sci-fi
- remix theory
- guerrilla filmmaking
- guerrilla marketing
- metadata
- utopias/dystopias
- furniture (especially chairs)
- distributed manufacturing
- gatekeeping
- un-gatekeeping
Have you made your own list? Share it with me over email!