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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Best of: The Pillars of a Meaningful Life with Philip McKernan

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Philip McKernan speaks around the world about the importance of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining clarity, and cultivating the confidence to believe in yourself. In one of the most inspiring and poetic conversations from 2015, Philip talks about the 3 pillars of a meaningful life.

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0:00.0

So I've shared stages with, let's use the analogy of say Richard Branson, I've shared stage with him numbers of times.

0:07.0

Now, great guy, he's achieved extraordinary things, he's done wonderful things for humanity, he gives back a tremendous amount and it's nothing to

0:14.2

with Richard. I could replace Richard's name with somebody else. Is that sometimes people

0:18.2

said the audience, yeah but yeah but he's I mean he's Richard Branson.

0:22.7

I mean he's got an island and he's got like 50 companies

0:25.8

or 80 companies or 85,000 staff or whatever his stats are.

0:29.8

And at some level, they kind of use that as a way to discount and maybe not to take

0:35.1

control of their own destinies and and therefore I decided that there's great

0:39.4

value in those conferences but this is a conference or not a concept.

0:44.4

But the most important thing was to illustrate that every man and woman has an extraordinary story

0:50.3

and therefore an extraordinary ability to move other people around them.

0:53.6

And it was illustrated and proved by this concept, which most people said to me, by the way,

0:57.4

that'll never work. People won't come and those speakers will let you down because

1:00.8

they're not prepared. And it was the absolute opposite of that.

1:06.0

And the only reason I'm sharing that is to illustrate that every man and woman listen to this call

1:11.0

who puts themselves down is, oh I'm not a speaker I'm not

1:14.0

I'm not who might influence anybody like I'm a carpenter a taxi driver I own a

1:18.0

business but I'm not I can't impact people how wrong you are and how that story has not been serving you.

1:25.0

It doesn't mean you have to become a speaker,

1:27.0

but you can impact somebody right next to you

1:31.0

that can go on and do other things.

1:32.0

And in some part and parcel play a tiny

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