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One of the sixteen callings

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The Aesthete

You can't help it, you make every room a little more beautiful than you found it.

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What did you come here to do?

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You are oriented toward beauty, not decoration, but the kind of beauty that tells the truth. You feel ugliness as a small daily injury, and answer it by making.

Your strengths

You notice beauty and its absence where others see neither.

You can make almost anything more beautiful and more itself.

You hold taste as a kind of integrity.

Your weaknesses

You can prize surface over substance.

You're wounded by ugliness more than is always reasonable.

You can be precious about work that needed to be rough.

Your opportunities

Beauty that tells the truth is rare and deeply felt.

Your eye can lift the standard of everything around you.

You can make beauty that's accessible, not only admired.

Your calling

To bring more true beauty into a world that settles for less.

How this might express itself

The artist / designer

Any craft where beauty is the point and the product.

The curator of taste

Roles that shape how things look, feel, and are experienced.

The beautifier

Quietly raising the aesthetic standard of whatever you touch.

Where this purpose can get lost

When beauty becomes only surface, perfecting how things look while their substance goes hollow.

Roles that tend to fit

DesignerArtistCreative directorStylist / curatorArchitectPhotographer

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