547: Finding Greater Success and Fulfillment with an Infinite Mindset with Simon Sinek
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Simon Sinek discusses the crucial pivot in thinking that professionals need to thrive in their careers.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) What most professionals get wrong about work.
2) The five key practices for thriving in an infinite game.
3) How to keep your confidence during setbacks.
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— ABOUT SIMON —
Simon is an unshakable optimist who believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together.
Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Simon teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to help build a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single day feeling inspired, feel safe at work, and feel fulfilled at the end of the day, Simon is leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.
Simon is the author of multiple best-selling books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, Together is Better, and The Infinite Game.
• Simon’s book: The Infinite Game
• Simon’s book: Leaders Eat Last
• Simon’s website: SimonSinek.com
• Simon’s LinkedIn: Simon Sinek
• Simon’s Twitter: @simonsinek
• Simon’s Instagram: @simonsinek
• Simon’s Facebook: Simon Sinek
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Event: Wells Fargo account fraud scandal
• Video: How to Motivate People, Transform Business, and Be a True Leader | Simon Sinek on Impact Theory
• Book: Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
• Book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 547 with Simon Sineck. |
| 0:23.6 | Simon is going to share how you can find greater enjoyment |
| 0:26.3 | and success and fulfillment in your work and more |
| 0:29.3 | by adopting an infinite mindset. |
| 0:31.1 | So you'll learn, one, what most professionals get wrong about work. |
| 0:34.3 | Two, some key practices for thriving in an infinite game and three, how to keep your confidence during |
| 0:39.9 | setbacks. So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to |
| 0:42.8 | albums you've referenced, it's over at awesome at your job.com slash f-f-47. |
| 0:47.3 | Now here's Simon's story. Simon Senec is an unshakable optimist who believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. |
| 0:53.3 | He's described as a visionary thinker with a rare intellect and he teaches leaders and |
| 0:57.6 | organizations how to inspire people with a bold goal to help people build a world |
| 1:01.6 | in which the vast majority of people wake up every single day feeling |
| 1:04.5 | inspired, feel safe at work, and feel fulfilled at the end of the day, Simon is leading a movement |
| 1:09.8 | to inspire people to do the things that inspire them. |
| 1:12.7 | Simon is the author of multiple best-selling books. |
| 1:14.5 | If things start with Y, Leaders Eat Last, Together is Better. |
| 1:17.6 | And The Infinite Game, his TED Talk, Start with Y, |
| 1:20.3 | is among the most watched TED Talks of all time. |
| 1:23.0 | So that's pretty cool. |
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