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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

627 | Sir Ken Robinson: “Being Good at Something isn’t a Good Enough Reason to 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

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sir Ken Robinson returns to the show today to get you thinking about what you do and whether you do it because you love it or simply because you think it’s what you’re supposed to do. He also encourages you to pursue those activities that give you energy rather than take it away.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QOT is being good at something isn't a good enough reason to do it.

0:07.0

Here we go.

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

0:36.0

I'm your hope Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and calm.

0:39.0

We've got Sir Ken Robinson on the show today and he's going to give you something to think about to ponder to contemplate as you start your week.

0:48.0

And that is are you good at what you do.

0:52.0

And if you're good at what you do, do you truly love what you do?

0:57.0

Are you doing something that you're just good at but you're not truly passionate about?

1:03.0

Here's Sir Ken.

1:05.0

And the thing is, what something down on our second is that if you think about your lineage, your personal lineage, you're sitting here now,

1:18.0

if you think of the number of people who had to meet each other down the centuries,

1:25.0

and the circumstances had to come about for them to meet each other.

1:29.0

However they did that, how are they bumped into each other?

1:32.0

How many people had to do that in how many different circumstances and how many different settings,

1:38.0

through the long march of time to eventually your parents met,

1:42.0

and under whatever circumstances you were then conceived and then now here you are.

1:46.0

The Dalai Lama's point is to be born at all is a miracle.

1:51.0

It's a miracle that we're here and congratulations by the way, you made it.

1:58.0

Where billions didn't. But here you are and you made it and you're not here for long,

2:03.0

you know, with the following wind you've got probably 90 LGS,

2:07.0

which is the blink of an eye in cosmic terms.

2:10.0

And this comment was simply, you didn't say this in Vancouver, you said it in a book,

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