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working hard for something we don't care
about is called stress
working hard for something we love is
i think one of the mistakes that people
make is they think purpose comes from
their job i've been a whatever for so
many years and when then i
lose my job or i retire i now don't have
a sense of purpose because i've i so
closely associated my self-worth with
the job that i did i knew what my job
was i had a sense of purpose and one
wonders if those things are conflated
right which is i had a sense of purpose
for my job and then when i didn't have
the job all of a sudden i sense i woke
up in the morning didn't know what to do
the purpose is not your mos your purpose
is not you're a saw gunner your purpose
is not the job that you wake up to do
every day your purpose is something
bigger i have five little rules that you
can follow as you
find your spark and bring your spark to life
life
the first
is to go after the things that you want
let me tell you a story
so a friend of mine and i
we went for a run in central park
the road runners organization
uh on the weekends they host races
and it's very common at the end of the
race they'll have a sponsor who will
give away something apples or bagels or
something and on this particular day
when we got to the end of the run
there were some free bagels and they had
picnic tables set up and on one side was
a group of volunteers on the table were
boxes of bagels and on the other side
was a long line of runners waiting to
get their free bagel so i said to my
friend let's let's get a bagel and he
looked at me and said ah the line's too long
long
and i said free bagel
and he said i don't want to wait
in line
and i was like
free bagel
and he says nah let's it's too long
and that's when i realized that there's
two ways to see the world
some people see the thing that they want
and some people see the thing that
prevents them from getting the thing
that they want
i could only see the bagels
he could only see the line
because the rule is you can go after
whatever you want you just cannot deny
anyone else
to go after whatever they want you don't
have to do it the way everybody else has
done it
you can do it your way
you can break the rules you just can't
get in the way of somebody else getting
what they want
rule number two
in the
18th century there was something that
spread across europe and eventually made
its way to america puerto fever also
known as the black death of childbed
basically what was happening
is women were giving birth
and they would die within 48 hours after
giving birth
this black death of childbirth
was the ravage of europe and it got
worse and worse and worse over the
course of over a century and these
doctors and men of science wanted to
study and try and find the reason
for this black death of
childbed and so they got to work
studying and they would study the corpses
corpses
of the women who had died and in the
morning they would conduct autopsies
and then in the afternoon they would go
and deliver babies and finish their rounds
rounds
and it wasn't until somewhere in the mid-1800s
mid-1800s
that oliver wendell holmes realized
that all of these doctors were
conducting autopsies in the morning
weren't washing their hands before they
delivered babies in the afternoon
and he pointed it out and said guys
you're the problem
and they ignored him and called him crazy
crazy
for 30 years
until finally somebody realized that if
they simply washed their hands
it would go away
and that's exactly what happened when
they started sterilizing their
instruments and washing their hands the
black death of childbed
disappeared the lesson here is
sometimes you're the problem
take accountability for your actions you
can take all the credit in the world for
the things that you do right as long as
you also take responsibility for the
things you do wrong it must be a
balanced equation you don't get it one
way and not the other
you get to take credit
when you also take accountability lesson
three take care of each other
the united states navy seals
are perhaps the most elite warriors in
the world and
and
one of the seals
was asked
who makes it through the selection
process who is able
to become a seal and his answer was
i can't tell you the kind of person
that becomes a seal i can't tell you the
kind of person that makes it through
buds but i can tell you the kind of
people who don't become seals
he says the guys that show up with huge
bulging muscles covered in tattoos who
want to prove to the world how tough
they are
none of them
make it through
he said the preening leaders who like to
delegate all their responsibility and
never do anything themselves none of
them make it through he says some of the
guys that make it through are skinny and
scrawny he said some of the guys that
make it through you will see them
shivering out of fear
he says however
all the guys that make it through when
they find themselves
physically spent
emotionally spent when they have nothing
left to give physically or emotionally
somehow some way they are able to find
the energy to dig down deep inside themselves
themselves
to find the energy to help the guy next
to them they become seals
he said
you want to be an elite warrior it's not
about how tough you are
it's not about how smart you are it's
not about how fast you are if you want
to be an elite warrior you better get
really really good at helping the person
to the left of you and helping the
person to the right of you
because that's how people advance in the world
world
the world is too dangerous and the world
is too difficult for you to think that
you can do these things alone if you
find your spark i commend you now who
you gonna ask for help and when are you
going to accept help when it's offered
learn that skill
learn by practicing helping each other
it'll be the single most valuable thing
you ever learn in your entire life to
accept help when it's offered and to ask
for it when you know that you can't do it
it
the amazing thing is when you learn to
ask for help you'll discover that there
are people all around you who've always
wanted to help you they just didn't
think you needed it because you kept
pretending that you had everything under control
control
and the minute you say i don't know what
i'm doing i'm stuck i'm scared i don't
think i can do this
you will find that lots of people who
love you will rush in and take care of you
you
but that'll only happen if you learn to
take care of them first lesson four
nelson mandela is
a particularly special case study in the
leadership world because he is
universally regarded as a great leader
you can take other personalities and
depending on the nation you go to we
have different opinions about other
personalities but nelson mandela across
the world is universally regarded as a
great leader
and he was asked one day
how did you learn to be a great
leader and he responded that he would go
with his father
to tribal meetings
and he remembers two things when his
father would meet with other elders
one they would always sit in a circle
and two his father
was always the last to speak
you will be told your whole life that
you need to learn to listen i would say
that you need to learn to be the last to
speak i see it in boardrooms every day
of the week even people who consider
themselves good leaders who may actually
be decent leaders will walk into a room
and say here's the problem here's what i
think but i'm interested in your opinion
let's go around the room it's too late
the skill to hold your opinions to
yourself until everyone has spoken does
two things one it gives everybody else
the feeling that they have been heard
it gives everyone else the ability to
feel that they have contributed
and two you get the benefit of hearing
what everybody else has to think before
you render your opinion to keep your
opinions to yourself if you agree with
somebody don't nod yes
if you disagree with somebody don't not
know simply sit there take it all in and
the only thing you're allowed to do is
ask questions so that you can understand
what they mean and why they have the
opinion that they have you must understand
understand
from where they are speaking
why they have the opinion they have not
just what they are saying practice being
the last to speak
one afternoon i went to buy a cup of
coffee and there was a barista by the
name of noah who was serving me noah was
fantastic he was friendly and fun
and he was engaging with me and i had so
much fun buying a cup of coffee i
actually think i gave 100 tip
right he was wonderful
so as is my nature i asked noah do you
like your job and without skipping a
beat noah says
i love my job
and so i followed up i said what is it
that the four seasons is doing
that would make you say to me
i love my job and without skipping a beat
beat
noah said throughout the day managers
will walk past me and ask me how i'm
doing if there's anything that i need to
do my job better he said not just my manager
manager
any manager
and then he said something magical
he says
i also work at caesar's palace and
caesar's at caesar's palace the managers
are trying to make sure we're doing
everything right they catch us when we
do things wrong
he says when i go to work there i like
to keep my head under the radar and just
get through the day so i can get my paycheck
paycheck
he says here at the four seasons i feel
i can be myself
myself
so we in leadership are always
criticizing the people we're always
saying we've got to get the right people
on the bus i've got to fill my wrong my
team i got to get the right people but
the reality is it's not the people it's
the leadership if we create the right
environment we will get people like noah
at the four seasons if we create the
wrong environment we will get people
like noah
at caesar's palace
there was a former undersecretary of
defense who was invited to give a speech
at a large conference about a thousand
people and he was standing on the stage
with his cup of coffee and styrofoam cup
and he took a sip of his coffee and he
smiled and he looked down at the coffee
and then he went off script
and he said you know last year i spoke
at this exact same conference
last year i was still the undersecretary
and when i spoke here last year they
flew me here business class
and when i arrived at the airport there
was somebody waiting for me to take me
to my hotel
and they took me to my hotel and they
had already checked me in and they just
took me up to my room and the next
morning i came downstairs and there was
someone waiting in the lobby to greet me
and they drove me to this here same
venue and handed me a cup of coffee in a
beautiful ceramic cup
he says i'm no longer the undersecretary
i flew here coach
i took a taxi to my hotel and i checked
myself in
when i came down the lobby this morning
i took another taxi to this venue and
when i asked someone do you have any
coffee he pointed to the coffee machine
in the corner and i poured myself a cup
of coffee into this here styrofoam cup
he says the lesson is
the ceramic cup was never meant for me
it was meant for the position i held
i deserved a styrofoam cup
remember this
as you gain fame
as you gain fortune
as you gain position and seniority
people will treat you better
they will hold doors open for you they
will get you a cup of tea and coffee
without you even asking none of that
stuff is meant for you
that stuff is meant for the position you hold
hold
it is meant for the level that you have
achieved of leader or success or
whatever you want to call it but you
will always deserve
deserve
a styrofoam cup remember that lesson of
humility and gratitude you can accept
all the free stuff you can accept all
the perks
absolutely you can enjoy them but just
be grateful for them and know that
they're not for you
and so i keep meeting these wonderful
fantastic idealistic hard-working smart
kids they've just graduated school
they're in their entry-level job i sit
down with them when i go how's it going
they go i think i'm gonna quit
i'm like why
they're like i'm not making an impact
it's as if they're standing at the foot
of a mountain and they have this
abstract concept called impact they want
to have in the world
which is the summit what they don't see
is the mountain i don't care if you go
up the mountain quickly or slowly but
there's still a mountain
and so what this young generation needs
to learn is patience
that some things that really really
matter like love
or job fulfillment joy
love of life self-confidence
a skill set any of these things all of
these things take time
sometimes you can expedite pieces of it
but the overall journey
is arduous and long and difficult
all you need to do is have the will and
the desire to want to understand what
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