Simon Sinek | Finding Your “Why”

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🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Think about your training ambition: When does it change? What hurdles get in the way? How do you keep yourself going? And how often do you think about why you’re doing what you’re doing? Finding your “why” ––your motivation, your belief, your cause –sets people up for greatness. And no one understands this idea better than Simon Sinek, an author, ethnographer, organizational consultant, and self-proclaimed optimist, who has dedicated his research, books, and career to helping people find their “why” and achieve their long-term goals. On this episode, Simon gives us tips on how to find and stick to our own “whys,” walks us through the best way to manage stress and unpacks the idea of training as “an infinite game.” Because when you approach your training routine as something that can’t be won, that has no end, you give yourself room to constantly improve and focus on the process instead of the outcome.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to Trained.
0:02.3	At Nike we believe that greatness isn't born, it's trained.
0:05.8	And that means more than just a workout.
0:08.0	Each episode will bring you conversations with leading experts in what we call the five
0:12.0	facets of fitness.
0:13.7	Movement, recovery, nutrition, mindset, and sleep.
0:18.4	I'm Ryan Flairty, Senior Director of Performance at Nike.
0:22.3	I trained some of the world's best athletes, like Russell Wilson, Brooks Keppka, and
0:27.0	Safe Juan Barclay.
0:29.2	Today we're talking about mindset and how to stay motivated, even when there's no competition.
0:34.7	You're listening to Trained, presented by Nike.
0:43.1	So many of us tie our identities to the things that we do, not to who we are.
0:47.9	And so what happens when you stop doing that?
0:50.1	Somebody defines himself as a world class athlete, but what happens when your career is,
0:53.8	I've got news for you, your career is gonna end.
0:56.8	100% sure, it's gonna end.
0:59.9	And by the way, that's for every single one of us.
1:03.4	And so I think there's great value in defining ourselves by who we are, not what we do, because
1:07.8	that is literally something that we can work to improve to the day we die, and it is literally
1:12.5	something infinite.
1:14.9	That's Simon Sinek, organizational consultant and author of the best-selling book Start
1:19.4	With Why.
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