EVERY MILLENNIAL NEEDS TO WATCH THIS | Simon Sinek

actually have an addicted generation that doesn't have the skillset to ask for help combined with the fact that they're so good at Facebook and Instagram they're good at putting filters on everything so they're good at showing you how smart and strong they are these kids who commit suicide you go look at their instagrams you would have no clue that they were depressed so they're happy and they're star athletes you have no clue cuz they're really good so when we say silly things like my door is always open you're assuming they have the courage to come in combined with the fact that they're subject largely not all but too many to a failed parenting strategy because their parents told them they were special they could have anything they wanted they can be anything they want they got medals for coming in last which by the way we know doesn't work it devalues the medal for the one who comes in first and the one who came in last it makes them feel stupid because they know they didn't deserve it the kids got into honors classes not because they deserved it but because the parents complained and some of them got good grades not because they earned them but because the teachers didn't want to deal with the parents and then the kids graduate college and they get a job and in an instant they find out they're not special they don't get anything for coming in last the parents can't get them a promotion you can't have whatever you want just cuz you want it and in an instant their entire self-image is shattered and so you have an entire generation growing up with lower self confidence than previous generations and so the problem is they're accused of being entitled I don't think they're entitled at all none of all I think they're impatient I keep meeting these fantastic smart driven ambitious idealistic fantastic kids who graduated schools they got a job they want to make an impact in the world and I go up to them and say how's it going and they say I think I'm gonna quit I'm like why they're like I'm not making an impact I'm like you've been here eight months it's as if they see the summit of a mountain does that is if they're standing at the foot of a mountain they can see the summit they can see the thing they want I want to make an impact what they don't see is the mountain this large a movable object you can go up fast you can go up slow I don't care but there's still a mountain what they don't understand is that life that relationships and career fulfillment are a journey there's no app for that I got nothing you've got to go through the slow plodding annoying meandering process called career in life but if they don't get it in eight months they go look for it somewhere else they don't get it it's impatience and because they don't have the skillset to ask for help and because they feel lonely it compounds and compounds so there we dump them in office environments that are built on theories from the 80s and 90s that prioritizes a number before a person and no one really cares about their confidence and their personal growth they're just numbers on a spreadsheet and so they enter work cultures that don't help them and the problem is they're entering the workforce at a deficit I hear from kids they tell me that they struggle to form deep meaningful relationships and the companies don't care I believe that now the responsibility on companies is even greater than it's ever been before to take care of its people because if the environments in which we are asking our youngest workers to work in isn't built to help them I kind of even imagine what the suicide and and homicide and just the rates of depression you know an accidental death due to overdose are gonna look like in the future it's gonna reach epidemic proportions the statistics are already alarming and yet nobody's sounding any alarm bells let me tell you a story so a friend of mine and I we went for a run in Central Park the Roadrunners organization on the weekends they host races and it's very common at the end of the race I'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 that lines 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 not that'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 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 get 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 now I had to sacrifice choice I didn't get to choose which bagel I got I got whatever I pulled out but I didn't have to wait in line 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 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 preening leaders who like to delegate all their responsibilities 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 them make it through he says some of the guys that make it through her 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 someway 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 half 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 the world is too dangerous in 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 gonna 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 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 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 undersecretary 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 they took me through the back entrance and took me into the green room and handed me a copy 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 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 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 or success or whatever you want to call it but you will always deserve a Styrofoam cup [Music]

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Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 02 2020