Simon Sinek
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Simon Sinek is an author best known for popularizing the concept of "the golden circle" and to "Start With Why", described by TED as "a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?"'. He joined the RAND Corporation in 2010 as an adjunct staff member, where he advises on matters of military innovation and planning.
His first TEDx Talk on "How Great Leaders Inspire Action" is the 3rd most viewed video on TED.com. His 2009 book on the same subject, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (2009) delves into what he says is a naturally occurring pattern, grounded in the biology of human decision-making, that explains why we are inspired by some people, leaders, messages and organizations over others.
His latest book is called Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
In This Interview Simon and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable.
How good leadership is feeding the good wolf.
How good leadership fills the environment with love, empathy and kindness.
The four main neurotransmitters that regulate human emotion.
How oxytocin inhibits addiction.
The Rat Park experiments.
The Cost of Leadership is self-interest.
How leadership does not come with rank.
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| 0:00.0 | think about the way people talk about their jobs. |
| 0:02.0 | I need this job to survive. |
| 0:04.1 | Not really. |
| 0:05.1 | Not really. |
| 0:06.1 | Like if you lost your job, death is not the obvious outcome. |
| 0:09.7 | Music |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome to The One You Feed. |
| 0:19.5 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized |
| 0:22.0 | the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like |
| 0:25.2 | garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 0:28.4 | ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward |
| 0:34.7 | negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, |
| 0:41.5 | we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, |
| 0:46.9 | our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:53.2 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 0:57.6 | how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:12.4 | In the 70s, the warehouse took over Chicago Nightlife, and the club's DJ would go on to make history. |
| 1:19.2 | Frankie, make sure that you felt it in your soul. |
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| 1:27.7 | a 12-part podcast about the iconic venues and people that revolutionize how we party. |
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| 1:38.0 | Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
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