Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

How do you think we should ask the question about what our purpose is and finding our purpose?

I always like Joseph Campbell's follow your bliss, like this idea that like you should follow things that make you intrinsically happy and I also do this with my students at

ASU like my first way of like mentoring them is to try to find out what their core passion

questions are and then how do we find problems to work on that are

aligned with who you are intrinsically and what you're interested in because I think

you know if you want to unlock human potential you have to have people working on

things they love.

Before you try to think about a career or anything else

you want to do in your life,

you have to think about how it makes you feel

moving in a direction you feel like you want to be moving.

People think science is this like technical thing that like you're just doing

calculations or something but the way that we do science in the space I work in

generating new explanations and new ideas is much more creative. It's pretty

emotional because you're basically trying to find

out how reality works and think about it and interrogate it and like parse it down to some concepts

that you can talk to other people about and then bat those ideas around and try to build you know a theory and an

experiment to test it it's a really hard thing to do and so I find like with

students if they don't really care about the problem it's too hard to do that

kind of work yeah you might be able to talk about it for a little bit but you're not

going to be able to deal with the years of research right but if you love the

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