Bright Shiny Object Syndrome Has a Name: The Undefined Head Center [E58]

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Emotional Authority

The head center is the bright shiny object syndrome center. 50% of people have an undefined head. You're in good company.

This isn't surface-level personal development ("I have ADHD, I can't focus"). This is about influence. You listen to a podcast—influenced. You go to a conference—influenced. You hear what your friend is doing—influenced. Every other minute it's: Ooh, this new AI tool. Ooh, I need to join this membership.

The head center only has 3 gates, so it's very easy to have it completely open. If you have gates there, influence will snag on something. 

Combined with the root center (the other pressure center), this is what marketers use: Buy before the time runs out. Five spots left. Special offer ending. Head pressure (influence) + root pressure (urgency) = sales tactics.

Keywords: head center human design, bright shiny object syndrome, undefined head center, Gate 64 confusion to clarity, influence pressure center, root center urgency, sales tactics psychology, decision points pivot points, human design centers

Transcript

Hey everyone. Welcome back to Clear Signal. Today we're gonna talk about the head center. I'd mentioned I was wrapping up foundational content in human design , and I have is in the process of being dropped on the root center.

And this is a go backwards to go forwards because that was recorded. Honestly Christmas of 2024. I don't even know if that was 2025, but it's great. And it's dropping in the root center is the base of the body graph and the head center is the top of the body graph. They are both pressure centers. We've done episodes on the motors.

We've done episodes on a lot of stuff, so you can check that out. And the reason I would be remiss if I didn't have an episode on the head center. Is because the head center is otherwise known as the bright shiny object syndrome center. And you would be like, well, I have that. And that's 'cause 50% of people have an undefined head. You are in good company if you have this. Centers in human design are not personal development dogma, meaning they're not surface personal development.

Meaning it's not like, oh, I got distracted. I have Adhd, or I don't have a list. And I can't figure it out, or I am not good at managing time. The root center has to do with managing time, and if it hasn't dropped yet, it will drop and you will hear about it.

I struggle with that a lot. I have a completely open root center. By the way, an open root center is not the same as an undefined, it's very easy to have an open one because there's only three gates in head center. So if you don't have any of those activated, it's very easy to have an open head center.

Whereas the throat center has 11 gates. So the percentage of people who are gonna have a completely open throat center is rare. Having three gates not activated, that's common. .

Undefined open. It's all good, bright, shiny object syndrome. And it's not necessarily that you're like, oh, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. It's that you are influenced by other people. You listen to a podcast, you're influenced, you go to a conference, you're influenced, you listen to what your friend is doing, you're influenced.

You go to a networking event, you're influenced. And some people, if you have a completely open, you can let it go in and go . I always use the analogy of hula hoop with my clients. If you have gates there, it will snag on something. For example, I have one head gate. It is Gate 64. I've talked about that in the past because Gate 64 is the confusion to Clarity Gate.

It's also my Mercury gate. So the way that I communicate tends to bring clarity to people fast. I will communicate a subject that other people have heard, and I say in five minutes what somebody else couldn't say in an hour? That's a negative because that means that this podcast has become a teaching podcast and people tune in just to hear my explanation of human design, and that includes people who work in the space.

So I know that, but I also leverage that with clients. I leverage that in my copy. I leverage that in public speaking. I leverage that in the way I communicate with people who I'm trying to make an impression on confusion and clarity. There's bigger aspects to that. My astrological chart, I've told you before, human design on its own is not enough.

Mercury's placement in my astrological chart has a huge impact on my career and my public image, which is why I would leverage it in the way that I do in certain arenas. And I have clarity in a lot of my copy, even though clarity is the most overused buzzword of 2026 ever. Most people don't have it in their design in the way I do.

So I'm going with the assumption that my electromagnetic signature, that that's really what I do is gonna trump the fact that it's a overused noise in the space. I could be wrong about that. Experimentation always. Majority of three lines here. Hi, nice to meet you. Point is head center.

You take in influence there, you taking pressure there and as. Making a plan and sticking to the plan is very difficult because every other minute it's like, Ooh, this new AI tool, Ooh, I need to join this membership. Ooh, I need to go to this conference. Ooh. I can personally speak for the fact that I have greatly stepped back from a lot of input I take from groups I'm in.

I don't currently go to conferences. Conferences are great for networking, but also, well, you really gotta know yourself. Human design is law, but understanding yourself and knowing yourself, and right now I'm in a place where I don't need more noise. I don't need more business data. I don't need more business information.

I shared in the profile episode, one of the things I did is I looked to the left and the right of me, what people were doing when I was in the 20 10, 20 11, 20 12 era of the health coaching business, coaching, I was in the health coaching space and everyone was buying all these programs and I would buy what they bought.

Either for them money was not an object because of their financial situation. So they're just like, why not? Or because they honestly thought that somebody else knew more than they did, and it prob, they probably did. They had no business background. So the incremental gain I'm going to get from going it's probably not worth the overwhelm.

Bright, shiny object syndrome, self-doubt. And. Mental loops that I will do as a result of going and somebody else would go to an event, take in what matters and leave, guys who are out there you understand it.

You probably have a completely open head or an undefined head, and that's very easy for you to check out. Google Head Center, Google for Human Design Body Graph. There you there's it. I am making this quick and short and to the point because we've kind of wrapped up the teaching of the human design content on this platform.

Talked about centers we talked about profile, talked about the overview through other people's podcasts I was on, or I provided you an A link to listen to those podcasts provided you so much more. I don't even remember it right now.

As well as business foundations and other things, and then we go to the next level with this and we'll see where it goes. Curious as to where this podcast goes, but it's gonna shift and pivot and morph, which is something I promised when it started. No podcast that changes name six times is not promising.

Morphing and pivoting and changing. I can't change the name every month. I wish I could, but I can't, but we'll see. Undefined head center. Where do you take an influence? Where do you take in bright shiny object syndrome? Where are you feeling pressure to do what other people are doing in your space? Where do you listen to somebody and you're like, I need to do what they tell me to do.

You can understand how this combined with the root center, which is the other pressure center, has to do with time and urgency. These can work really well together. People can leverage this in selling. People can leverage this in sales. People can leverage this in conferences. People leverage this in conferences all the time.

Buy the special thing before the time runs out, before you miss the five spots, before the blah, before the blah. And I said this in the emotional authority episode, there is scarcity built into all business. And that's not a bad thing. It's the energy behind it.

It's the intent behind it. Are you doing it to manipulate? Are you doing it because you're like, Hey, this is a very special one-to-one offer. I've got five spots. I want to honor the people who make a decision and we're gonna move I trust that people are adults and that they can make their own decisions.

This is not negative pressure. This is head pressure. Based on. Influence. This is not overwhelm pressure like, oh, I didn't do anything on my to-do list today, and now I got twice as many things to do on my to-do list tomorrow. Ask me how I know as someone with a completely open root center, I work with accountability folks to help me because I rely on them to save me for myself.

That is self-awareness. It does not make me any less of a human. And I talk about that in the Root Center episode, how we like to label people about what is productivity, what is a successful person, it's all a bunch of bullshit is what it is. You can take in the bullshit if you want to, or you can ignore it and use it as a vehicle to really, understand yourself and operate as a vehicle through the world.

Knowing yourself. It allows you to make choices. It allows you to navigate pivot points. It allows you to navigate decision points, and that's a lot of what the work that I do with my clients. Either do longer term work in my shift work, which is for established business owners whose business no longer feels like themselves or no longer represent themselves or maybe never represented their full self.

It's a complete recalibration and restructuring, using them as the point of restructuring, not the business first, which is where everybody goes awry. And there's also

clarity edge, which is for people at a pivot point, shift point, decision point, something that they just need to understand and see and have named. The ending of one chapter and the serve of new chapter, and that could be in a current business as well.

There's the head center, there's the pressure centers, there's how it relates to the root center, and that is what people are using to get your attention, and you get to decide if you give it to them. I'll see you in the next one.