Listen Again: Igniting Your Purpose

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Some people have a bullseye picture of their purpose in life and are headed straight toward it. However, this is extremely rare. Why? Martha says it’s because we live in a culture dominated by left-hemisphere thinking, which pulls us toward anxiety and socializes us to do as we’re told and acquire material wealth. In this episode of The Gathering Room podcast, Martha talks about following your curiosity to activate the right side of the brain, which is where our passion lives. And our passion is what leads us to our life’s purpose. If you want to start looking for things that draw your attention (rather than push yourself toward the things you think you should do), and you’re ready to prepare yourself to follow your curiosity wherever it leads, tune in to the full episode—it may contain just the spark you need!

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0:00.0	Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called
0:08.0	Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?
0:14.7	Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke
0:22.0	them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to
0:28.3	marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.
0:49.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. Today, I'm talking about something that I've been writing about. That's what you hear
0:59.4	every single day these days because I've been writing for a season. This is something I wrote about
1:04.8	long ago, and it has to do with the way people find their passions and their purpose.
1:12.5	The way I'm looking at this nowadays is that the reason so many people don't seem to know
1:18.6	their passion and their purpose, like maybe y'all know, maybe you have a complete bull's-eye
1:24.5	picture of your purpose in life and you're just headed straight toward it.
1:28.2	There are people like that. But it's very rare and here's why I think it's so rare.
1:33.9	I think it's because we live in a culture dominated by left hemisphere thinking.
1:39.1	And that type of thinking gets very, it pulls us toward anxiety.
1:43.9	And it also has the odd characteristic of,
1:48.4	I've told you this before, being unable to see anything other than its own point of view.
1:54.5	So people with, who have left hemisphere, no, right hemisphere struck. So they're only thinking with their left
2:01.4	hemispheres, they can't even see things that are on the side of the body that their left
2:07.1	hemisphere doesn't see. So the left hemisphere has this weird solipsism to it. It believes it's the
2:12.8	only thing in the world. And you get wrapped into a cultural pattern of always doing things that this world wants
2:19.2	you to do. And they're usually productivity measured in material wealth, power status, but mainly
2:26.6	material wealth. Let's just get right down to it. The left hemisphere loves to grab things.
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