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there's two ways to see the world some
people see the thing that they want and
some people see the thing that prevents
want there's there's a great story of
two two Lumberjacks where every morning
they start chopping wood at the same
time and every day they stop chopping
wood at the same time and every day one
of The Lumberjacks disappears for about
an hour in the middle of the day and
every day he chops more wood than the
other guy and this goes on for months
and eventually the one who works all day
he says I don't understand every day we
start at the same time every day we stop
at the same time every day you disappear
for about an hour in the middle of the
day and every day you chop more wood
than me where do you go for that hour
and the other Lumberjack looks up and
goes oh go home and sharpen my axe you
know that that if you if you if you take
an infinite mindset it's not about how
much you can get done each day it's how
much you can get done over the course of
a career over the course of a lifetime
and and you you got to take vacations
which means you turn off your email and
you turn off your phone and you do not
connect to the office you know go
sharpen your acts I have five little
rules that you can follow as you find
your spark and bring your spark to 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 some 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 table 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 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 and so I walked
up to the line
I leaned in between two people put my
hand in the box and pulled out two
bagels and no one got mad at me because
the rule is you can go after whatever
you want you just cannot deny anyone
else to go after whatever they want so
the point is is you don't have to wait
in line 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
number two take care of each other the
United States Navy Seals are perhaps the
most elite Warriors in the world 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 preing
leaders who like to delegate all their
responsibility and never do anything
themselves none of them make it through
he said the Star College athletes who've
never really been tested to the core of
their being none of 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
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 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 cuz that's how people
advance in the 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 going to 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 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 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 but that'll only happen if you
learn to take care of them first lesson
three Nelson bandela 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
he was actually the son of a tribal
Chief 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 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 g
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 the skill is really
to keep your opinions to yourself if you
agree with somebody don't nod yes if you
disagree with somebody don't nod 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 from where they are speaking
why they have the opinion they have not
just what they are saying and at the end
you will get your
turn it sounds easy it's not practice
being the last to speak that's what
Nelson Mandela did Lesson Four in the 18th
18th
century there was something that spread
across Europe and eventually made its
way to America called Perle
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 in some
hospitals it was as high as 70% of women
who gave birth who would die as a result
of giving birth but this was the
Renaissance this was the time of
empirical data and science and we had
thrown away things like tradition and
mysticism these were men of science
these were doctors 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 uh of the 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 and it
wasn't until somewhere in the mid 1800s
that Dr Oliver Wendel Holmes realized
that all of these doctors who are
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 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
childbed
disappeared the lesson here is sometimes
you're the problem and my point is is
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
I'll tell you a true story a few months
ago I stayed at the Four Seasons in Las
Vegas it is a wonderful hotel and the
reason it's a wonderful hotel is not
because of the fancy beds any hotel can
go and buy a fancy bed the reason it's a
wonderful hotel is because of the people
who work there if you walk past somebody
at the 4C and and they say hello to you
you get the feeling that they actually
wanted to say hello to you it's not that
somebody told them that you have to say
hello to all the customers say hello to
all the guests right you actually feel
that they care now in their Lobby they
have a coffee stand and I 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 get
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 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
any manager and then he said something
magical he says I also work at Caesar's
Palace and Caesar 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 he says here at the Four
Seasons I feel I can be myself so we in
leadership are always criticizing the
people we're always saying we 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 number five
my favorite one of all true story there
was a former under Secretary of Defense
who invited to give us speech at a large
conference about a thousand people and
he was standing on the stage with his
cup of coffee and a 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 under secretary and when I spoke
here last year they flew me here
business class and when I arrived at the
airport there was somebody 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 copy cup of coffee
in a beautiful ceramic cup he says I'm
no longer the under secretary 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 I came in the front door
and found my way backstage 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 deserve 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 they will
call you sir and ma'am and they will
give you stuff none of that stuff is
meant for you that stuff is meant for
the position you 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 will always
deserve a styrofoam
cup remember that 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 we're asking
our youngest generation to work and
succeed and find themselves and build
their confidence and overcome their
addiction to technology and build strong
relationships at work we're asking to do
this and these are the environments
we've created we keep saying to them
you're the Future Leaders we're the
leaders now we're in
control what are we
doing this is what empathy means it
means if there's an entire generation
struggling maybe it's not them it's like
you know the only thing that I uh that
um the common factor in all my failed
relationships me same thing oh we just
can't get the right you know the right
performance out of our people maybe it's
you right it's not a generation it's not
them they're not difficult or hard to
understand they're human beings like the
rest of us trying to find their way
trying to work in a place where they
feel that someone cares about them as a
human being by the way that's what we
all want in other words it's not even
generational it's all of us this is the
practice of empathy that if we're
struggling to communicate to someone if
it's struggling to help someone be at
their natural best I'm tired of people
saying to me how do I get the best out
of my people really that's what you want
they're like a towel you just ring them
how can I get the most out of
them no how do I help my people be at
their natural
best right we're not asking these
questions we are not practicing empathy
we have to start by practicing empathy
and relate to what they may be going
through and it will profoundly change
the decisions we make it will profoundly
change the way we see the world we're
growing up in a Facebook Instagram World
in other words we're good at putting
filters on things we're good at showing
people that life is amazing even though
I'm depressed right and so everybody
sounds tough and everybody sounds like
they got it all figured out and the
reality is there's very little toughness
and most people don't have it figured
out and so when the more senior people
say well what should we do they sound
like this is what you got to do and they
have no clue so you have an entire
generation growing up with lower
self-esteem than previous generations
right we know that engagement with
social media and our cell phones
releases a chemical called dopamine
that's why when you get a text feels
good right it's why we count the likes
it's why we go back 10 times to see if
and if it's going if our my Instagram is
growing slower I did I do something
wrong do they not like me anymore right
the the trauma for young kids to be
unfriended right dopamine is the exact
same chemical that makes us feel good
when we smoke when we drink and when we
we gamble in other words it's highly
highly addictive that's basically what
happened you have an entire generation
that has access to an addictive
numbing chemical Cod dopamine through
social media and cell phones as they're
going through the high stress of
adolescence why is this important what's
happening is because we're allowing
unfettered access to these dopamine
producing devices and media basically
it's becoming hardwired and what we're
seeing is as they grow older they too
many kids don't know how to form deep
meaningful relationships
their words not mine they will admit
that many of their friendships are
superficial they will admit that their
friends that they don't count on their
friends they don't rely on their friends
they have fun with their friends but
they also know that their friends will
cancel on them if something better comes
along deep meaning for relationships is
not there because they never practice
the skill set and worse they don't have
the coping mechanisms to deal with
stress so when significant stress starts
to show up in their lives they're not
turning to a person they're turning to a
device they're turning to social media
they're turning to these things which
offer temporary relief I believe loving
your work is a right and not a privilege
I despise the fact I Lament The fact I
curse the fact that so few people get to
say I love my job as if they've won some
Lottery you know you go out with your
friends and somebody says I love my job
and everybody goes oh my God you're so
lucky right that to me is madness
everybody the vast majority should get
to wake up and say I love my job it is a
right it is a god-given right that we
should love where we work and we should
demand it we should demand that our
leaders provide an environment in which
we want to come where we want to care
about about each other where we feel
safe to express our vulnerabilities and
our fears and our concerns that we're
open to correction and discipline and
feedback that we're not defensive
because we know that it's being given to
help us improve and grow and we want to
improve and grow um and in turn we will
help others improve and grow because
when we feel safe when we
feel that our leaders care more about us
than a number they care more about our
lives and our confidence and our joy and
our skill set more than some short-term
gain that they care more about our
priorities than the priorities of some
disinterested external
constituency then we will respond in
kind and we will offer our blood and our
sweat and our tears and we will make
sacrifices of all kinds to see that our
leaders vision is Advanced and that this
company continues to thrive not for them
for ourselves it becomes deeply personal
and becomes something we love
contributing to I talk about it all the
time working hard for something we don't
care about is called stress working hard
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