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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

238 | Sean Aiken: “Don’t Ask Yourself What the World Needs; Ask Yourself What Makes You Come Alive and Go Do it.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

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

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Sean Aiken makes his QOD debut today to talk about how he was able to find the one thing that he’s the most passionate about and how you can do it, too, by reframing how you think of “work” and giving yourself permission to express the gifts you hold inside of you.

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Don't ask yourself what the world needs.

0:03.2

Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do it.

0:06.8

And that is the quote of the day.

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

0:36.0

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

0:39.0

Today's features speaker is Mr. Sean Aiken.

0:42.0

It's his first time in the show and I love this talk because he shares how he was able to find that one thing that he's the most passionate about and how you can find it to hear Sean.

0:53.0

So in the fourth grade my teachers began to associate my value with a letter grade.

1:04.0

Took me a few years to adjust but by the time I reached the eighth grade I felt like I had unlocked the secret to the school system.

1:12.0

I realized that it doesn't matter what you're learning.

1:17.0

It's actually about figuring out how to get the teacher to give you a good grade.

1:21.0

So in school instead of studying subjects I studied my teachers.

1:25.0

They told me what they wanted.

1:27.0

I delivered and turned they gave me a great report card.

1:31.0

I continued right through college right up until I graduated the business degree.

1:35.0

I've talked in my class to the 4.0 GPA.

1:38.0

Wasn't until graduation day that it hit me.

1:42.0

I knew nothing.

1:45.0

None of the important things anyways.

1:47.0

I knew nothing about myself or what I wanted to do with my life.

1:51.0

I knew that I wanted to be happy that I wanted to be fulfilled to feel like my life meant something.

1:56.0

But other than that I was completely lost.

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