Service with Maria Shriver
A Bit of Optimism
The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live a life of service? These words are thrown about pretty easily, |
| 0:12.0 | being a servant leader, being in the service industry. |
| 0:14.8 | But what does it actually mean to live a life of service? |
| 0:18.8 | There's one person who knows a lot more about this than the rest of us. |
| 0:21.8 | Maria Shriver has grown up in a family |
| 0:24.4 | completely devoted to service and she and all of her siblings have also |
| 0:28.7 | devoted their lives to service. So we decided to go for a socially distant walk together. Please excuse |
| 0:35.3 | the noise from the traffic and the wind. This is a bit of optimism. |
| 0:50.0 | Test, test, okay, I'm recording. So the thing that I thought I wanted to talk to you about was service. What does it mean, what does service mean in the |
| 0:53.1 | what does service mean in the 21st century because I think it's changed. |
| 0:56.2 | So I think that service can be really small actions as a woman wrote today that she African American woman wrote that she was scared of the police so she sent out a Facebook message in her neighborhood and invited the police to her house, |
| 1:13.0 | I love that. |
| 1:14.0 | For cookies and coffee. |
| 1:16.0 | To talk. |
| 1:18.0 | To talk. |
| 1:19.0 | And to her to listen. |
| 1:20.0 | And I thought to myself that's so big, but in her mind it was so small. |
| 1:28.0 | And I think we're so focused on we have to change the world, we have to topple the Catholic Church, we have to |
| 1:35.3 | defund the police as opposed to these singular actions that we can each take, |
| 1:44.0 | whether it's making a placard and go standing in a black flag. |
| 1:48.0 | But has it always been that way? |
| 1:50.0 | Like I went from just living my life every day to now, I want to have a revolution and topple all the establishments. |
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