#8: The Power of WHY
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Your "WHY" is what moves you. It's your purpose, your reasons for doing what you do, and what causes you to get up in the morning. In this episode, Dave talks about how your WHY has the immense power to propel you towards your dreams and aspirations, and shares insight for how your WHY can add more value to yourself and allow you to raise the value of life for others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson. I want to talk about the power of Y, W-H-Y, the power of |
| 0:25.5 | Y. You know, this topic has gotten a lot of mileage lately, guys like really great guys and authors |
| 0:31.5 | and speakers like Simon Sinek, talk about it all starts with Y. Bill Heibles talks about the white hot why. You might |
| 0:40.1 | think this is a new topic, a contemporary topic, but this is a principle that goes way back. |
| 0:46.2 | I mean, Victor Frankel wrote about this in his book, Man's Search for Meaning, the why, that if |
| 0:51.9 | you had a strong enough why, you could live with any what, you could live with any how. If you had a strong enough why you could live with any what you could live |
| 0:55.0 | with any how if you had a strong enough why pulling you through and he quotes Nietzsche who |
| 1:01.2 | talked about those things even before he did so like so many great principles and topics this one |
| 1:06.8 | has deep roots and never goes out of style and it transcends generations and it transcends cultures. |
| 1:13.1 | Because your why is about your purpose. |
| 1:15.2 | It's about what moves you. |
| 1:16.8 | Really what it boils down to is why do you get up in the morning and why should anybody else even care? |
| 1:25.2 | In other words, what do you want for you and who do you want to help? |
| 1:28.6 | Who do you want to add value to? |
| 1:30.5 | What do you want to impact that is bigger and above and beyond yourself? |
| 1:35.1 | You know, that's really where hunger comes from. |
| 1:36.9 | Sometimes people say, man, my coach just doesn't make me hungry or my boss just doesn't |
| 1:41.9 | make me hungry. |
| 1:42.7 | And listen, it's nobody's job to make you hungry. |
| 1:45.1 | If you look up the word hunger, it says an intense desire, a compelling craving. Well, an intense |
| 1:50.3 | desire and a compelling craving comes from within. And if something is intense, notice it just |
| 1:55.9 | doesn't say desire, an intense desire. Notice it just doesn't say craving, a compelling craving. |
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