Moment 99 - Simon Sinek: The Power Of Your ‘Why’ & How To Find It!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Education, Business

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What is your why? It is the reason you wake up in the morning, it is your value and the thing you give to the world and the people around you. In this moment Simon Sinek discusses how your ‘why’ is formed by the time you are a teenager and is the sum total of your upbringing and how you were raised. Once formed your ‘why’ never changes. But Simon says the thing we give to the world with our ‘why’ is also the thing we need the most, to find this we need to focus less on ourselves and focus on helping others. Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/dqCseBJuQxb Simon: https://twitter.com/simonsinek?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.instagram.com/simonsinek/?hl=en Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's so many things I want to talk to you about, but one of the things that I was curious
0:06.0	about, because I've been thinking a lot about this in my life, is this idea of our
0:10.0	wise evolving.
0:13.2	What is your why?
0:14.2	It hasn't evolved over the last decade at all.
0:18.2	So my why is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.
0:24.1	So together, each of us can change our world for the better.
0:27.7	It's why I wake up every morning, every day.
0:30.2	It is the greatest compliment someone can pay me when they say to me that was inspiring
0:34.0	or you were inspiring.
0:35.0	That feeds me.
0:38.9	The interesting thing about a why is because it is not, it is objective.
0:44.0	A why is the sum total of how we were raised.
0:48.0	It is born out of the patterns and the lessons we learned from our parents, from our teachers
0:52.7	when we were young.
0:53.7	Our why is fully formed by the time we're in our mid to late teens.
0:56.4	And you only have one wife of the rest of your life.
0:57.9	It doesn't change.
1:00.4	You are who you are based on how you were raised.
1:03.0	Now you may not be acting as your true self.
1:06.9	People say that to us all the time.
1:08.7	It's like I don't know who you are anymore.
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