Where Passion Comes From | Simon Sinek

passion is not an input passion is an output uh passion um you know we're all passionate we're just not all passionate for the same things and we will feel what we call passion when we are involved in something that is deeply personal to us that is helping us advance some higher purpose or cause then when we go to work what we what we experience is passion but if you make us do something that we feel no personal connection to that is not as helping advance any kind of bigger ideal than what we feel is stress now passionate people work many hours they don't come home they miss their families they take business trips they they don't sleep and yet it feels worth it people who are stressed go on business trips they miss their families they work long hours they don't sleep but it doesn't feel worth it passion is an output not an input like stress is an output not an input so you don't you can't do what you're passionate about you find something you believe in and what you will experience is passion so then it begs the question how do i find what i believe in right there's a i think society especially our society and especially for a younger generation puts overwhelming pressure on us to have a vision what's your vision or find your blessing all of these they're all the same thing right and the problem is we're not all visionaries it's unfair it's an unfair standard that's like telling everybody to be creative but we're not all creative or everybody be good at math but we're not all good at math we're not all visionaries only a small percentage of our population are actually visionary you don't have to have a vision you have to find a vision right if you hear martin luther king say i have a dream that one day little black children will hold hands on the playground with little white children you go that's what i want you choose to follow dr king when you hear the words of visionaries and if they appeal to you on some visceral level they give you goosebumps they make you excited they make you want to sacrifice be a part of it stand in line to hear them pay money whatever it is follow that make that your vision take it and say that's my vision too you can adopt someone else's vision and make it your own that's what we call a following is we have taken the visionary's vision and we have chosen to follow that vision ourselves we are followers that's a good thing there's no difference between the visionary and the follower we both see ourselves in service to something bigger than ourselves whether you are the originator of that idea or not is irrelevant what it does is fuel passion what it does is fuel conviction so we don't have to have a vision but we do have to find one and so read books watch ted talks read articles be in life watch videos you know go out seek find listen listen to leaders corporate political whoever and when something resonates with you even if you don't know why that then you can adopt and you can take it upon yourself to use your own talents your own gifts to help advance whatever that cause is right so i have a cause i have a crystal clear vision of the world i want to live in i imagine a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired feel safe at work and return home fulfilled at the end of the day the gift that i have committed to help advance that cause is the ability to put some of these ideas into words that other people can relate to you know when you do a jigsaw puzzle the first thing you do is lean the box against the wall right we all have a piece of the puzzle to help build this vision my piece of the puzzle is i'm the guy that points at the box but i'm not the guy who builds the business because there are other people who are better at that the entrepreneurs and the business leaders i want them to embrace the same picture on the box the people who work for companies who say i want to work for a company that does that that's their piece the one who's a gifted natural leader who cares we all have at least one friend who for whatever reason love us and care us even when we're horrible people that that for some reason they still believe in us and they see the good in us that's their piece of the puzzle and so we have to commit our gifts the reason they call them gifts is because they're forgiving that's what gifts are they're forgiving away if you have a gift it's not something you take it's something you give so i think we have to find a vision and commit our gifts to help advance that vision and the great leaders the ones that can put that vision into words so clear that we can then recite that vision as if it were our own [Music]

Channel: Simon Sinek

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Keywords: simon sinek, start with why, inspiration, motivation, leadership, career, inspire

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Length: 4min 47sec (287 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 27 2020