Build A Life, Not A Resume | Street Philosophy With Jay Shetty

a university professor started off his class by picking out of his back pocket a 20 pound note and in this lecture hall of about 200 people he asked how many of you would like this note naturally all 200 hands went up he said interesting he then said before I let you have it let me ask you this question he took the note and folded it in half twice and then he said how many of you want this note still two hundred hands went up now he said let me try something else he took the note and he crumpled he said how many of you want this note now still two hundred hands went up finally he chucked the note on the floor he screwed it with his shoe and crumpled it even more picked it back up now with dirt and said how many of you want this note all two hundred hands are still up he said today you've learned an important lesson no matter how much I crumpled that note how much ice punched it up how many times it was trodden on you still wanted it because it was still worth twenty pounds in the same way that that twenty pound note held its value so do you no matter how many times life will tread our new life will crumple you life will scrunch you and life will squeeze you you will always keep your value that spark within us all of bliss knowledge and eternity that exists that spark will never be taken away our value is not created by the price of our clothes or our bank balance or their job title that we have see we should be building life and not just building our Seavey's in the middle of 2009 he was the software engineer that no one wanted to hire he had 12 years of experience at Yahoo but he was rejected by Facebook and then rejected by Twitter he'd been to a great university he had a great CV but he decided to team up with one of his alumni members at Yahoo and started to create an app and focus on the startup space in five years time he sold that out for 19 billion dollars to Facebook believe it or not that was Brian Acton the co-founder of what when he was rejected from Facebook he said it was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people I look forward to life's next adventure when he was rejected by Twitter he responded by saying worked out it was quite a long commute it's so interesting to see that someone rejected from two of the top Internet companies actually responded with humor and actually responded with positivity this lady was diagnosed with clinical depression her marriage had failed and she was jobless with a dependent child she was on a four-hour delay train journey from Manchester to London when she came up with this idea and she started to write this book about this wizard and as she started writing she then finished her manuscript took it to twelve publishers and was rejected by all 12 believe it or not that's JK Rowling this man watched his first company crumble he was a Harvard University dropout and his first company's demo didn't even work he went on to build Microsoft his name's Bill Gates therefore failure is just a sign that we need to widen our scope we need to be ready and build ourselves up for the next level actually what we end up achieving is far greater than what we'd envisioned for ourselves and this divine plan this orchestration can't be happening without this intervention that occurs because if we had it our way we just settle we just accept what we thought was our goal what we thought we were chasing but actually I've noticed that when you don't get that later down the line you look back and you reflect and realize that what you've gained is so much greater failures are only failures when we don't learn from them because when we learn from them they become lessons and we actually extract a lay all of these teachings and actually get more insight into how we can improve the way we work and how we can actually drive with a different energy the challenge we have is that we only talk about people's failures when they succeed and that's why they become this taboo or we feel like their failures never happened we need to share these stories earlier we need to bring out these stories in a Spearin sees on the journey so that people who are on the journey can actually follow in those footsteps and that's why Steve Jobs said you can't connect the dots moving forward you only can when you're looking backwards [Music]

Channel: HuffPost

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Id: fQNFMxYxFSQ

Length: 4min 34sec (274 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 12 2016