I wrote the Ignite Manifesto one fine day in January 2018. In 20 breathtaking minutes. The manifesto captures, not just our mission, but also our operating system - it describes the 8 outcomes we bring to life in everyone we touch.
Andre A. Yap
Founder & CEO
Ignite House
To many thousands who've experienced the Ignite Manifesto, they call it, simply: GPS. Genius, Purpose, Service, or GPS, is a deeply personal navigation system for living one's deepest truth and so fulfilling one's highest potential and greatest promise - for joy, meaning, success and impact.
In the Young Fellows program, we're now taking GPS to our next generation of young leaders.
IGNITE MANIFESTO
At Ignite, we know these to be true:
First, that I am gifted with my own Genius –
unique, unrepeated and unrepeatable
for all time.
Second, that my singular Genius bears
the thumbprint of Who I Am and Why I am Here.
Genius points to Purpose, Purpose to Genius.
Third, that I can only give out
of what I have been given.
And what I have been given,
I must give and live for others.
Genius finds its fullness in Service –
a Purpose bigger than self.
Fourth, that if I am honest and brave,
my Genius and Purpose will find
their manifest call in a shared Mission –
with others, for others.
A Mission rooted in finding
that particular slice of humanity
whose particular pains
I am particularly gifted
(and compelled!) to heal.
Fifth, that shared Mission
leads naturally to Collaboration.
Shared Mission demands
Shared Genius: mine, yours, ours.
If we are a collection of our own Genius –
each unique, unrepeated, unrepeatable –
where then can we go, but to Innovation.
We Ignite, therefore, not just for self,
but for each other.
Because what we are born to do,
we are born to do with others
and for others.
We need each other’s Genius.
And far beyond Genius,
we need each other to be on this journey,
to fulfill this necessary progression:
from a sense of our own individual
Genius, Purpose, and Service (GPS)
toward shared Mission and Collaboration,
and ultimately, to Innovation and Impact.
This is the path of transcendence.
This is how we lift each other
to heights we never in our wildest dreams,
or loftiest ambitions, dared.
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