Simon Sinek is known for making the concept of “the golden circle” and to “Start With Why“ famous around the world. As a powerful motivational speaker, he has spoken at TED and many other illustrious events worldwide.
But the one that most millennial’s know him for is the one that “broke social media”. Here is the speech along with some reviews and comments from it:
Here’s my contribution. Simon is clearly quite intelligent, yet every speaker I hear, at some point disappoints me – this case is the struggle to define Passion – Our dictionaries are almost useless.
Passion is the combination of 4 distinctive energies that come together and explode.
1. Love that knows no constriction and restriction; Love without boundary
2. Unconfined and unharnessed enthusiasm, an excitement saturated and imbued with a sense of the divine and immortality. Passion is unbridled enthusiasm
3. Insatiable need, desire and drive
4. Unending longing for the intimacy that with blending and balance brings oneness, a longing and yearning for oneness.
These are the stuff of Passion. Any one or two or three of them doesn’t spark Passion. But when all 4 combine there is combustion. And if there were interest I would continue to explain how Passion gets lost and where Passion is found. Intelligence is bit different to educated knowledge. Knowledge takes our intelligence leaps beyond what it was and evolves the DNA – Earth is bankrupt when it comes to knowledge.
Success is a feeling. It’s about contribution, serving other’s. Passion is a feeling that you would do something for free and that you didn’t have to get paid for it. Find your passion and take accountability for your actions. Thank you Mulligan Brothers for this inspiring video. I start my day with videos like this and a positive thinking mode and attitude so that I can learn and grow to become a best person I can be.
These are my key takeaways from Simon Sinek. and in my opinion, I think he got all the answers on how to create a meaningful and impactful life to yourselves and to others.
1. Vision vs Goal – a goal is something you can measure but a vision is this infinite journey and gives you how to create a meaningful life.
2. Success is a feeling of contribution. so even low hierarchy position can achieve success when they have a greater sense of feeling of contribution and it is not the one whose goal is to reach $1M
3.Passion – what are the things you love to do and things you’ll do for free
4.Feel Fulfilled in life, Feel the love in life by working hard in the process and not working hard for the goal
5. If you feel nervous, you can translate it to excitement just by saying to your mind that you are excited that’s it.
6. You can take credit for everything as long as you take responsibility for everything.
7. It is not about outdoing everyone, it is about outdoing yourself, and become a better version better contribution than yesterday.
8. Authenticity – If you say what you believed and do what you believed, you’ll attract people who believed in what you believed in. Don’t be that person who changes his words, actions just to satisfy and get the attention of people. Cynicism is there.
9. To be a great leader. Do not nod yes or no, Train yourself to speak last why? because it makes the members of a group feel that they herd and the second one is they’ll also hear you.
Simon Sinek thank you so much. You have helped me more than you will ever know you will always have my respect. Hope you see this message thank you so so much.
Simon says success is a feeling. I think success is a thought. Your thought leads to your emotion/feeling of happiness or in some cases sadness. Either way, he does a great job. I have enjoyed many of his talks and suggest people listen to Simon often.
Simon, you are a true inspiration not just to me, but to so many of us who follow you. Every single person has their life that they’re trying to live and each one of us have our ups and downs throughout the day. I know I’ve got mine. From my dad passing right after he retired out of nowhere and my sister passing 90 days later from domestic violence. I’ve been through my fair share as we all have, however listening to you and taking your advice and applying what what I’ve personally learned from you is definitely helping me see the big picture. Let’s all do better in being a service to others and stay positive and happy. I know when I get an opportunity to help someone, boy is it such a wonderful feeling. I’d love to talk with you one on one. Keep doing what you’ve been doing. You’re helping so many.
Without being philosophical, success is a numbers game. Our perceptions and perspectives on success relates to numbers. Our schools, communities, government systems, business, church, and human support systems all play the numbers game. In school we are measured through our GPA. In the family environment, we even hear parents saying, can you not be like your brother or sister … with a high GPA? Bills come monthly like clock work in clear and indisputable numbers. Our employers pay us exact salaries, no more, maybe less. In society we are measured by the cars we drive, aren’t we? Be it a bicycle race or beauty contest, there’s only numero uno. Passion is nice but at the end of the day we all need cash, don’t we? Outside Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, what then is success? For me it’s simply being in the game … one day at a time doing, suffering, learning … just being there daily together with the people we care!
You can break the rules .. you just can”t get in the way of someone else getting what they want…” This is actually a lack of integrity. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The choice to break the rules and grab two bagels does impact other people. But in the moment the choice was made to disregard that. It was an act motivated by selfishness and an unwillingness to wait. I get that the intent was to eliminate the wait and have what he wanted – a bagel. But it’s still problematic.
