774 Change the World for Good

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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REJECT APATHY. There is suffering happening all over the world. We all can do something. Children can be a great example. When you see a kid give up what little allowance they have to help someone else or set up a lemonade stand, you realize that what you’re able to give is enough. We can’t just turn a blind eye. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Scott Harrison where he talked about living a life of giving. Scott Harrison was working as a nightclub promoter in New York when he became “morally bankrupt.” He sold all of his belongings and set sail to Africa in an effort to redeem himself. He returned to New York with one goal: to provide clean water to everyone on earth. Twelve years later, he’s raised over 320 million dollars and provided water to people in 26 countries with his nonprofit charity: water. He may not be driving a fancy car or going on huge vacations, but he is ending suffering for hundreds of people a day. For him, that means so much more. Learn what it takes to change the world for good in Episode 774. In This Episode You Will Learn: The biggest lesson Scott Harrison has learned (1:30) About the children who have gotten involved in solving the water crisis (3:00) About the donor who saved charity: water (5:00)

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0:00.0	This is 5 Minute Friday!
0:05.6	Scott Harrison, after a decade of indulging his darkest vices as a nightclub promoter, he declared
0:16.6	spiritual, moral, and emotional bankruptcy.
0:20.3	He spent two years on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, saw the effects of dirty
0:25.5	water firsthand and came back to New York City on a mission to change the world.
0:30.9	Upon returning to New York in 2006, having seen the effects of dirty water firsthand, he turned
0:36.9	his full attention to the global water crisis, and then 1.1 billion people living without
0:44.2	access to clean water.
0:45.3	What's the biggest lesson you've learned in the last 12 years in giving your life to
0:54.3	service and being on this mission to and suffering with the water crisis?
1:02.2	It's been a lot of people feel like it's a big sacrifice.
1:07.8	Bro, I know you got offered that big job at Facebook.
1:10.8	Do you ever think you should have taken it?
1:13.1	Bro, you're driving a Kia Serrento.
1:16.4	You can't pay for piano lessons for your kid.
1:19.3	There's this empathy that a lot of people will have because I haven't tried to get rich.
1:24.5	I haven't gone after the money and they feel like sometimes I've made this great sacrifice.
1:30.4	I'm like, I haven't made the sacrifice at all.
1:33.8	Think about it.
1:35.3	Today, we will raise enough money to get a 3,800 humans clean water for the first time.
1:41.4	Just in one day.
1:42.4	Today, and then we'll do it again tomorrow, and we'll do it again the next day.
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