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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