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The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions

The True Purpose of Life

The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions

Robin Sharma

Education

4.8886 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This Mastery Session is all about a question I get asked from time to time: "What's the true purpose of life?". Also in this episode, I take you back to my childhood and share some insights I've learned that can be of great use to you.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Welcome to the Mastery Sessions.

0:05.0

This Mastery Session is all about a question I get asked from time to time.

0:09.0

And it's Robin, what is the true purpose of my life?

0:12.8

And I feel like saying, I don't know.

0:15.0

The great thing about being a human being

0:16.4

is you get to answer that question for yourself.

0:19.3

But I want to take you back to my childhood.

0:21.7

You know, I may have shared with you on a previous mastery session. I come from very humble

0:25.1

beginnings. I didn't have a silver spoon in my mouth. My parents came to the nation

0:31.0

where I lived from as immigrants, even the business I started

0:35.0

and the books I've written and the things that I've done in my career, you know I

0:38.9

started the Moncasolus Ferrari as a self-published book. No one gave me much of a chance. But one of the things I've had in my life is a great blessing.

0:48.0

Wonderful parents, parents who supported me, parents who believed in me, parents who encouraged me.

0:54.0

And my mom is awesome.

0:57.0

You know, thank God she is still with us.

1:00.0

And my father at 77 is still with us, thank God.

1:04.0

Still gets up every morning, goes to his medical practice at 77,

1:09.0

and I say, why aren't you retiring?

1:11.0

And he says, because my patients still need me and I must say

1:15.6

to you or share with you with great respect I'm my father's son and I hope I never

1:20.9

retire the point I want to share with you is when I was growing up my dad

1:24.4

took out this poem and he translated it from Sanskrit into English and it was a poem from

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