E206 - Simon Sinek: ‘Start with why’ when searching for High Performance
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High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Simon Sinek is an author and inspirational speaker. Simon is known for his books ‘Start with Why’ and ‘Find Your Why’, both of which focus on how to find your purpose and help those in your life find it too. Finding your Why, is the idea that “everyone knows what we do, some of us know how we do it, but very few of us can articulate why we do what we do.” Great leaders think, act and communicate in the exact same way, which is completely different from everyone else. They tell people why they do what they do, rather than what they do. In this episode, they delve into how Simon found his why, after becoming unfulfilled in work and life whilst at career high point and how he helps others find their why too.
They also discuss how you cannot be a high performer on your own. He shares language is crucial when giving feedback and how to shape criticism so those in power will respond well to it. This episode is a deep dive into finding your purpose, using your best attributes to their fullest and what makes a great leader.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. You're listening to High Performance, the award-winning podcast that unlocks the |
| 0:04.9 | minds of some of the most fascinating people on the planet. I'm Jake Humphrey and alongside |
| 0:09.7 | Professor Damien Hughes, we learn from the stories, successes and struggles of our guests, |
| 0:14.8 | allowing us all to explore, be challenged and to grow. Here's what's coming up today. |
| 0:20.1 | I have a vision of a world that does not yet exist, a world in which the vast majority |
| 0:25.0 | of people wake up every single morning inspired. Feel safe wherever they are and end the |
| 0:29.2 | day fulfilled by the work that they do. The experiences you had growing up make you |
| 0:33.7 | who you are, make me who I am. Your why is fully formed by your mid to late teens and it |
| 0:39.2 | doesn't change for the rest of your life. You have only one why. You are who you are. I |
| 0:44.3 | don't think you can be high performance by yourself. I don't think it exists. And anybody |
| 0:48.4 | who does is, they're either not as high performing as they think they are or they are high performing |
| 0:53.8 | but at tremendous cost. I live for the desire to spread a message in a way that I can |
| 1:01.9 | die with confidence that other people carry the torch without me. Every year the goal |
| 1:05.8 | is that if I were to get it by a bus, I can say with pride that the work will continue |
| 1:12.4 | because it has to because it must because the vision is bigger than all of us. |
| 1:17.8 | So today we welcome author Simon Sinek to high performance, one of the most requested |
| 1:22.7 | people we're getting messages from you all the time saying please get Simon Sinek onto |
| 1:26.9 | your podcast. And so we've done just that. Simon is an inspiration. He may well be best |
| 1:32.8 | known for his TED talk on the concept of why it's been viewed over 60 million times. |
| 1:37.6 | His video on millennials in the workplace reached 80 million views in its first week and |
| 1:42.9 | he continues to be an inspiration through his global best sellers start with why leaders |
| 1:48.2 | eat last and the infinite game. And we speak to Simon on this podcast about how you can |
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