The ONLY Video You Need To Find Your TRUE PURPOSE In Life Mark Zuckerberg

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today

i want to talk about purpose

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but i’m not here to give you the

standard commencement about finding your

purpose

we’re millennials we try to do that

instinctively

instead i’m here to tell you that

finding your purpose

isn’t enough the challenge for our

generation

is to create a world where everyone has

a sense of purpose

one of my favorite stories is when jfk

went to go visit the nasa space center

and he

saw a janitor holding a broom and he

asked him what he was doing and the

janitor replied mr president

i’m helping put a man on the moon

purpose is that feeling that you

are a part of something bigger than

yourself

that you are needed and that you have

something better ahead to work for

purpose is what creates true happiness

and today i want to talk about three

ways

that we can create a world where

everyone has a sense of purpose

by taking on big meaningful projects

together

by redefining equality so everyone has

the freedom to pursue their purpose and

by building community

all across the world

so first let’s take on big meaningful

projects

our generation is going to have to deal

with tens of millions of jobs replaced

by automation like self-driving cars and

trucks

but we have the potential to do so much

more than that

every generation has its defining works

more than 300 000 people worked to put

that man on the moon including that

janitor

millions of volunteers immunized

children around the world against polio

and millions of more people built the

hoover dam and other great projects

and now it’s our generation’s turn to do

great things

now i know maybe you’re thinking i don’t

know how to build a dam

i don’t know how to get a million people

involved in anything

well let me tell you a secret

no one does when they begin

ideas don’t come out fully formed

they only become clear as you work on

them

you just have to get started

movies and pop culture just get this all

wrong

the idea of a single eureka moment is a

dangerous lie

it makes us feel inadequate because we

feel like we haven’t had ours yet

and it prevents people with seeds of

good ideas from ever getting started in

the first place

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in our society we often don’t take on

big things because we’re so afraid of

making mistakes

that we ignore all the things wrong

today if we do nothing

the reality is anything we do today

is going to have some issues in the

future but that can’t stop us from

getting started

so what are we waiting for it is time

for our generation defining

great works how about stopping climate

change before we destroy the planet

and getting millions of people involved

manufacturing and installing solar

panels

how about curing all diseases and

getting people involved by asking

volunteers to share their

health data track their health data and

share their genomes

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these achievements are all within our

reach

let’s do them all in a way that gives

everyone in our society a role

let’s do big things not just to create

progress

but to create purpose the second

is redefining our idea of equality

so everyone has the freedom to pursue

their purpose

now many of our parents had stable jobs

throughout their careers but

in our generation we’re all a little

entrepreneurial whether we’re starting

our own projects or finding our role in

another one

and you know that’s great because our

culture of entrepreneurship

is how we create so much progress

an entrepreneurial culture thrives when

it is easy to try lots of new ideas

facebook wasn’t the first thing i built

i also built

chat systems and games study tools and

music players and i’m not alone

jk rowling got rejected 12 times before

she finally wrote and published harry

potter

the greatest successes come from having

the freedom to fail

now today we have a level of wealth and

equality

that hurts everyone when you don’t have

the freedom

to take your idea and turn it into a

historic enterprise

we all lose and right now today

our society is way over indexed on

rewarding people when they’re successful

and we don’t do nearly enough

to make sure that everyone can take lots

of different shots

now let’s face it there is something

wrong with our system

when i can leave here and make billions

of dollars in 10 years

while millions of students can’t even

afford to pay off their loans let alone

start a business

i know a lot of entrepreneurs and i

don’t know a single person who gave up

on

starting a business because they were

worried they might not make enough money

but i know too many people who haven’t

had the chance to pursue their dreams

because they didn’t have a cushion to

fall back on if they failed

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every generation expands its definition

of equality

previous generations fought for the vote

and civil rights

they had the new deal and great society

and now it’s time for our generation to

define

a new social contract

we should have a society that measures

progress

not just by economic metrics like gdp

but by how many of us have a role we

find meaningful we should explore ideas

like universal basic income to make sure

that everyone has a cushion to try new

ideas

and we’re all going to make mistakes so

we need a society that’s less focused on

locking us up and stigmatizing us when

we do

and as our technology keeps on evolving

we need a society that is more focused

on providing continuous education

through our lives

and yes giving everyone the freedom to

pursue purpose isn’t going to be free

people like me should pay for it and a

lot of you are going to do really well

and you should too

but it’s not just about giving money

you can also give time and i promise you

if you just take an hour to a week

that’s all it takes to give someone a

hand and help them reach their potential

now maybe you’re thinking that’s a lot

of time i’m not sure if i have that much

time

i used to think that we can all make

time to give someone a hand

let’s give everyone the freedom to

pursue purpose

not just because it’s the right thing to

do but because when more people can turn

their dreams into something

great we are all better for it

purpose doesn’t only come from work

the third way we can create a sense of

purpose for everyone

is by building community and in our

generation

when we say purpose for everyone we mean

everyone in the world

in a recent survey of millennials around

the world

asking what most defines our identity

the most popular answer wasn’t

nationality ethnicity or religion

it was citizen of the world

that’s a big deal every generation

expands the circle of people we consider

one of us

and in our generation that now includes

the whole world

we understand that the great arc of

human history

bends towards people coming together in

ever greater numbers

from tribes to cities to nations to

achieve things that we could not on our

own

we get that our greatest opportunities

are now global

we can be the generation that ends

poverty that ends disease

and we get that our greatest challenges

need global responses too

no country can fight climate change

alone or prevent pandemics

progress now requires coming together

not just as cities or nations

but also as a global community

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but we live in an unstable time

there are people left behind by

globalization across the whole world

and it’s tough to care about people in

other places when we don’t first feel

good about our lives here at home

the purpose and stability in our own

lives

that we can start to open up and care

about everyone else too

and the best way to do that is to start

building local communities

right now

change starts local

even global change starts small with

people like us

in our generation the struggle of

whether we connect more

whether we achieve our greatest

opportunities comes down to this

your ability to build communities

and create a world where every single

person

has a sense of purpose

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