75. What's Essential: Simon Sinek on The Power Of Finding Your Why
The Greg McKeown Podcast
Greg McKeown
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Come with me on an exploration of self-discovery. |
| 0:11.8 | On this podcast we decipher what really matters, as we unravel the chaos of day-to-day work |
| 0:19.8 | to learn how to build an essential life. |
| 0:24.3 | I've been thinking about your life. |
| 0:28.9 | I've been thinking about how easy it is to feel lost in the midst of all the busyness. |
| 0:36.7 | How easy it is to feel like we're languishing after a year and a half of all that has been required |
| 0:45.5 | of us, of all of the uncertainty and adaptation, and I can think of nothing more important in such moments |
| 0:56.4 | than coming back to not just what's essential, but why it matters. |
| 1:04.5 | To renew our clarity |
| 1:08.7 | in why we think what matters matters so much. |
| 1:15.0 | So I've reached out to my friend Simon Sinek and asked him to be on the What's Essential |
| 1:19.2 | Podcast today so that we can reflect on not just what matters, but why. |
| 1:25.3 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:28.6 | I am here today with Simon Sinek. He sort of needs no introduction really. |
| 1:35.4 | I sort of imagine that anybody listening to the What Essential Podcast is at least familiar with |
| 1:43.8 | Simon's work. I hate to even say it this way, but number two Ted Talk. |
| 1:50.2 | It's got to be number one soon, Simon. He's got to be close now. |
| 1:55.0 | He's blown up the internet on multiple occasions, but there's a millennials |
| 2:01.7 | speech that's just gone bonkers and hundreds of millions of people and really I feel a sort of |
| 2:10.6 | kinship between essentialism and the start with why movement. So I'm so looking forward to |
| 2:19.3 | this conversation. Simon, welcome to the What's Essential Podcast. |
| 2:23.0 | Thanks for having me. What's something essential to you right now that you're under investing in? |
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