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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

138 | Wes Moore: “If It Doesn’t Make Your Heart Beat a Little Faster, It’s Not Your Work.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Author, speaker, and entrepreneur Wes Moore talks about the difference between a job and your work, and the three things you must do to find that special work that will impact other people and make your time here worthwhile. To learn more about Wes and his BridgeEdu program for college success, visit bridgeedu.com. You can find his latest book, The Work: Searching for a Life That Matters on amazon.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-quote-of-the-day-show-daily-motivational-talks/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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If it doesn't make your heart beat a little faster,

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it's not your work.

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And that is the quote of the day.

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Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

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I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and dot com.

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Thank you so much for tuning into our Tuesday episode today's

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feature speaker is Wes Moore.

0:43.0

And this might be my favorite talk of the entire week

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because Wes is talking about finding your work,

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finding that thing that you can do that's going to have

0:53.0

impact on the lives of so many other people.

0:56.0

Here's Wes.

0:58.0

David Grabers, a anthropologist and he's an activist.

1:02.0

And he once made a statement where he said,

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huge swaths of our world are currently working in jobs

1:10.0

that they secretly believe should not even exist.

1:14.0

The moral pain of that reality is severe.

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A scar across our collective soul.

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Where I find myself trying to find my value in my job,

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what I didn't understand was I needed to find my value in my work.

1:39.0

And there is a difference because a job was my occupation.

1:45.0

My work was when my greatest passions began to start

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