Simon Sinek Leaves the Audience SPEECHLESS One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever
performing under pressure whether it’s
me or anybody else is the same
you know i have the same pressures as
anyone else there’s time there’s
performance there’s financial i mean
there are you know there’s deadlines my
pressures are not unique
um the situations may be different or
you know but but
everybody has the same kinds of
pressures
but what i found or what i find
fascinating is the interpretation of the
stimuli if let me let me explain so
i was watching the olympics this last
number 11 and
i was amazed at how bad the questions
were that the reporters would ask
all the athletes and almost always they
asked the same question
whether they were about to compete or
after they competed
were you nervous right and
to a t all the athletes went no
right and what i realized is it’s not
that they’re not nervous it’s their
interpretation of what’s happening in
their bodies i mean what
what happens when you’re nervous right
your heart rate starts to go
you’re you know you sort of get a little
tense you get a little sweaty right you
have expectation of what’s coming and we
interpret that as i’m nervous
now what’s the interpretation of excited
your heart rate starts to go you become
you’re anticipating what’s coming right
you get a little sort of like tense it’s
all the same thing it’s the same stimuli
except these athletes these these
olympic quality athletes
have learned to interpret the stimuli
that the rest of us would say as
nervous as excited they all say the same
thing no i’m not nervous
i’m excited and so i’ve actually
practiced it
just to tell myself when i start to get
nervous that this is excitement
you know and so where when you used to
speak in front of a large audience and
somebody would say how do you feel i
should say
a little nervous now when somebody says
how do you feel i’m like
pretty excited actually and it it came
from just sort of telling myself
no no this is excitement and it becomes
a little bit automatic later on
but it’s kind of a remarkable thing to
deal with pressure by interpreting what
your body is
experiencing as excitement rather than
nerves
and it’s really kind of effective it
makes you want to rush forward rather
than pull back and yet it’s the same
experience
i talk to so many smart fantastic
ambitious idealistic hard-working kids
and they’re right out of college they’re
in their entry-level jobs and i’ll ask
them
how’s it going and they’ll say i think
i’m going to quit
and i’m like why they say to me i’m not
making an impact
i’m like you know you’ve been here eight
months right
they treat the sense of fulfillment or
even love
like it’s a scavenger hunt like it’s
something you look for
my millennial friends they’ve gone
through so many jobs they’re either
getting fired
i mean it was mutual or they’re quitting
because they’re not making an impact or
they’re not finding the thing they’re
looking for they’re not feeling
fulfilled
as if it’s a scavenger hunt love
a job you find joy from
is not something you discover it’s not
like i found love
here it is i found a job i love that’s
not how it works
both of those things require hard work
you are in love because you work
very hard every single day of your life
to
stay in love you find a job that brings
you ultimate joy because you work hard
every single day to serve those around
you and you maintain that joy it’s not a
discovery
but the problem is the sense of
impatience
it’s as if an entire generation is
standing at the foot of a mountain they
know exactly what they want they can see
the summit what they can’t see is the
mountain
this large immovable object
that doesn’t mean you have to do your
time that’s not what i’m talking about
take a helicopter climb i don’t care but
there’s still a mountain
life career fulfillment relationships
are journeys
the problem is this entire generation
has an institutionalized sense of
impatience
and do they have the patience to go on
the journey to maintain love to
feel fulfilled or do they just quit and
on to the next dump
on to the next ghost and on to the next
i’m at my best when i’m around people
who believe what i believe
i know it seems silly but
i try very very hard to sort of stack
the deck you know to put myself in a
position of strength
um so for example you know somebody
asked me just yesterday have you ever
had sort of a bad
you know engagement i was thinking i’m
like not really but it’s not because i’m
some sort of sort of genius
understanding anything like that
it’s because i stack the deck it’s
because i want to be there
i want to be around people who want me
there in other words if i’m somebody’s
tenth choice
and like you know i’ll probably turn it
down
whereas if i’m their first choice they
really want me there and so i’m more
likely to have a good engagement they’re
supportive of me i’m supportive of them
and so um yeah i’m at my best when i
when i stack the deck when i choose to
be in an environment where
my strengths are are there
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