How to find work you love | Scott Dinsmore | TEDxGoldenGatePark
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0:11 - 0:12Wow, what an honor.
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0:12 - 0:14I always wondered
what this would feel like. -
0:14 - 0:19So eight years ago, I got
the worst career advice of my life. -
0:19 - 0:20I had a friend tell me,
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0:20 - 0:23"Don't worry about how much
you like the work you're doing now. -
0:23 - 0:25It's all about just building your resume."
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0:25 - 0:28And I'd just come back
from living in Spain for a while, -
0:28 - 0:30and I'd joined this Fortune 500 company.
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0:30 - 0:31I thought, "This is fantastic.
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0:31 - 0:33I'm going to have
big impact on the world." -
0:33 - 0:36I had all these ideas.
And within about two months, -
0:36 - 0:39I noticed at about 10am every morning
I had this strange urge -
0:39 - 0:42to want to slam my head
through the monitor of my computer. -
0:43 - 0:45I don't know if anyone's ever felt that.
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0:45 - 0:48And I noticed pretty soon after that
that all the competitors in our space -
0:48 - 0:51had already automated my job role.
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0:51 - 0:55And this is right about when I got
this sage advice to build up my resume. -
0:55 - 0:57Well, as I'm trying to figure out
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1:00 - 1:04what two-story window I'm going
to jump out of and change things up, -
1:04 - 1:08I read some altogether different advice
from Warren Buffett, and he said, -
1:08 - 1:13"Taking jobs to build up your resume
is the same as saving up sex for old age." -
1:13 - 1:15(Laughter)
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1:15 - 1:17And I heard that,
and that was all I needed. -
1:17 - 1:21Within two weeks, I was out of there,
and I left with one intention: -
1:21 - 1:22to find something that I could screw up.
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1:22 - 1:24That's how tough it was.
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1:24 - 1:27I wanted to have some type of impact.
It didn't matter what it was. -
1:27 - 1:30And I found pretty quickly
that I wasn't alone: -
1:30 - 1:32it turns out that over 80 percent
of the people around -
1:32 - 1:34don't enjoy their work.
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1:34 - 1:35I'm guessing this room is different,
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1:35 - 1:39but that's the average
that Deloitte has done with their studies. -
1:39 - 1:42So I wanted to find out,
what is it that sets these people apart, -
1:42 - 1:44the people who do the passionate,
world-changing work, -
1:44 - 1:46that wake up inspired every day,
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1:46 - 1:48and then these people,
the other 80 percent -
1:48 - 1:50who lead these lives of quiet desperation.
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1:50 - 1:53So I started to interview all these people
doing this inspiring work, -
1:53 - 1:55and I read books and did case studies,
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1:55 - 1:58300 books altogether
on purpose and career and all this, -
1:58 - 2:02totally just self-immersion,
really for the selfish reason of ... -
2:03 - 2:05I wanted to find the work
that I couldn't not do, -
2:05 - 2:07what that was for me.
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2:07 - 2:10But as I was doing this,
more and more people started to ask me, -
2:10 - 2:12"You're into this career thing.
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2:12 - 2:14I don't like my job.
Can we sit down for lunch?" -
2:14 - 2:16I'd say, "Sure."
But I would have to warn them, -
2:16 - 2:19because at this point,
my quit rate was also 80 percent. -
2:19 - 2:22Of the people I'd sit down with for lunch,
80 percent would quit their job -
2:23 - 2:24within two months.
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2:24 - 2:27I was proud of this, and it wasn't
that I had any special magic. -
2:27 - 2:29It was that I would ask
one simple question. -
2:29 - 2:32It was, "Why are you doing
the work that you're doing?" -
2:32 - 2:34And so often their answer would be,
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2:34 - 2:36"Well, because somebody
told me I'm supposed to." -
2:36 - 2:38And I realized that so many
people around us -
2:38 - 2:42are climbing their way up this ladder
that someone tells them to climb, -
2:42 - 2:45and it ends up being leaned up
against the wrong wall, -
2:45 - 2:46or no wall at all.
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2:46 - 2:49The more time I spent around
these people and saw this problem, -
2:49 - 2:52I thought, what if we could
create a community, -
2:52 - 2:54a place where people
could feel like they belonged -
2:54 - 2:56and that it was OK
to do things differently, -
2:56 - 2:59to take the road less traveled,
where that was encouraged, -
2:59 - 3:01and inspire people to change?
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3:01 - 3:04And that later became
what I now call Live Your Legend, -
3:04 - 3:06which I'll explain in a little bit.
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3:06 - 3:09But as I've made these discoveries,
I noticed a framework -
3:09 - 3:11of really three simple things
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3:11 - 3:14that all these different passionate
world-changers have in common, -
3:14 - 3:16whether you're a Steve Jobs
or if you're just, you know, -
3:17 - 3:19the person that has
the bakery down the street. -
3:19 - 3:21But you're doing work
that embodies who you are. -
3:21 - 3:24I want to share those three with you,
so we can use them as a lens -
3:24 - 3:27for the rest of today
and hopefully the rest of our life. -
3:27 - 3:30The first part of this three-step
passionate work framework -
3:30 - 3:32is becoming a self-expert
and understanding yourself, -
3:32 - 3:35because if you don't know
what you're looking for, -
3:35 - 3:36you're never going to find it.
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3:36 - 3:39And the thing is that no one
is going to do this for us. -
3:39 - 3:43There's no major in university
on passion and purpose and career. -
3:43 - 3:45I don't know how that's not
a required double major, -
3:45 - 3:47but don't even get me started on that.
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3:47 - 3:50I mean, you spend more time
picking out a dorm room TV set -
3:50 - 3:53than you do you picking your major
and your area of study. -
3:53 - 3:56But the point is,
it's on us to figure that out, -
3:56 - 3:59and we need a framework,
we need a way to navigate through this. -
3:59 - 4:03And so the first step of our compass is
finding out what our unique strengths are. -
4:03 - 4:06What are the things that we wake up
loving to do no matter what, -
4:06 - 4:09whether we're paid or we're not paid,
the things that people thank us for? -
4:09 - 4:12And the Strengths Finder 2.0
is a book and also an online tool. -
4:12 - 4:16I highly recommend it for sorting out
what it is that you're naturally good at. -
4:16 - 4:20And next, what's our framework
or our hierarchy for making decisions? -
4:22 - 4:25Do we care about the people,
our family, health, -
4:25 - 4:27or is it achievement, success,
all this stuff? -
4:27 - 4:30We have to figure out what it is
to make these decisions, -
4:30 - 4:32so we know what our soul is made of,
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4:32 - 4:35so that we don't go selling it
to some cause we don't give a shit about. -
4:36 - 4:39And then the next step is our experiences.
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4:40 - 4:43All of us have these experiences.
We learn things every day, every minute -
4:43 - 4:45about what we love, what we hate,
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4:45 - 4:47what we're good at,
what we're terrible at. -
4:47 - 4:49And if we don't spend time
paying attention to that -
4:49 - 4:51and assimilating that learning
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4:51 - 4:54and applying it to the rest of our lives,
it's all for nothing. -
4:54 - 4:57Every day, every week,
every month of every year -
4:57 - 4:59I spend some time
just reflecting on what went right, -
4:59 - 5:01what went wrong,
and what do I want to repeat, -
5:01 - 5:03what can I apply more to my life.
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5:03 - 5:06And even more so than that,
as you see people, especially today, -
5:06 - 5:08who inspire you, who are doing
things where you say -
5:08 - 5:11"Oh God, what Jeff is doing,
I want to be like him." -
5:11 - 5:13Why are you saying that?
Open up a journal. -
5:13 - 5:16Write down what it is about them
that inspires you. -
5:16 - 5:18It's not going to be
everything about their life, -
5:18 - 5:20but whatever it is, take note on that,
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5:20 - 5:22so over time we'll have
this repository of things -
5:22 - 5:26that we can use to apply to our life
and have a more passionate existence -
5:26 - 5:27and make a better impact.
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5:27 - 5:30Because when we start
to put these things together, -
5:30 - 5:33we can then define
what success actually means to us, -
5:33 - 5:36and without these different parts
of the compass, it's impossible. -
5:36 - 5:39We end up in the situation ...
We have that scripted life -
5:39 - 5:42that everybody seems to be living
going up this ladder to nowhere. -
5:42 - 5:45It's kind of like in Wall Street 2,
if anybody saw that, -
5:45 - 5:48the peon employee asks
the big Wall Street banker CEO, -
5:48 - 5:50"What's your number?
Everyone's got a number, -
5:50 - 5:53where if they make this money,
they'll leave it all." -
5:53 - 5:56He says, "Oh, it's simple. More."
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5:56 - 5:58And he just smiles.
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5:58 - 6:00And it's the sad state
of most of the people -
6:00 - 6:03that haven't spent time
understanding what matters for them, -
6:03 - 6:06who keep reaching for something
that doesn't mean anything to us, -
6:06 - 6:09but we're doing it because everyone
said we're supposed to. -
6:09 - 6:11But once we have this framework together,
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6:11 - 6:13we can start to identify
the things that make us come alive. -
6:14 - 6:17You know, before this, a passion
could come and hit you in the face, -
6:17 - 6:20or maybe in your possible line of work,
you might throw it away -
6:20 - 6:22because you don't have
a way of identifying it. -
6:22 - 6:26But once you do, you can see something
that's congruent with my strengths, -
6:26 - 6:27my values, who I am as a person,
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6:27 - 6:31so I'm going to grab ahold of this,
I'm going to do something with it, -
6:31 - 6:33and I'm going to pursue it
and try to make an impact with it. -
6:33 - 6:36And Live Your Legend
and the movement we've built -
6:36 - 6:39wouldn't exist if I didn't have
this compass to identify, -
6:39 - 6:42"Wow, this is something I want to pursue
and make a difference with." -
6:42 - 6:45If we don't know what we're looking for,
we're never going to find it, -
6:45 - 6:48but once we have
this framework, this compass, -
6:48 - 6:49then we can move on to what's next...
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6:49 - 6:51And that's not me up there...
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6:51 - 6:53Doing the impossible
and pushing our limits. -
6:53 - 6:55There's two reasons
why people don't do things. -
6:55 - 6:57One is they tell themselves
they can't do them, -
6:57 - 7:00or people around them
tell them they can't do them. -
7:00 - 7:02Either way, we start to believe it.
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7:02 - 7:04Either we give up,
or we never start in the first place. -
7:04 - 7:07The things is, everything was impossible
until somebody did it. -
7:07 - 7:10Every invention,
every new thing in the world, -
7:10 - 7:11people thought were crazy at first.
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7:11 - 7:15Roger Bannister and the four-minute mile,
it was a physical impossibility -
7:15 - 7:17to break the four-minute mile
in a foot race -
7:17 - 7:19until Roger Bannister stood up and did it.
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7:19 - 7:20And then what happened?
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7:20 - 7:23Two months later,
16 people broke the four-minute mile. -
7:23 - 7:26The things that we have in our head
that we think are impossible -
7:26 - 7:29are often just milestones
waiting to be accomplished -
7:29 - 7:30if we can push those limits a bit.
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7:30 - 7:34And I think this starts with probably
your physical body and fitness -
7:34 - 7:36more than anything,
because we can control that. -
7:36 - 7:38If you don't think you can run a mile,
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7:38 - 7:40you show yourself
you can run a mile or two, -
7:40 - 7:42or a marathon, or lose five pounds,
or whatever it is, -
7:42 - 7:44you realize that confidence compounds
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7:44 - 7:47and can be transferred
into the rest of your world. -
7:47 - 7:50And I've actually gotten into the habit
of this a little bit with my friends. -
7:50 - 7:53We have this little group.
We go on physical adventures, -
7:53 - 7:56and recently, I found myself
in a kind of precarious spot. -
7:56 - 7:58I'm terrified of deep, dark, blue water.
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7:58 - 8:00I don't know if anyone's ever had
that same fear -
8:00 - 8:03ever since they watched
Jaws 1, 2, 3 and 4 like six times -
8:03 - 8:04when I was a kid.
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8:04 - 8:08But anything above here, if it's murky,
I can already feel it right now. -
8:09 - 8:11I swear there's something in there.
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8:11 - 8:14Even if it's Lake Tahoe,
it's fresh water, totally unfounded fear, -
8:14 - 8:15ridiculous, but it's there.
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8:15 - 8:18Anyway, three years ago
I find myself on this tugboat -
8:18 - 8:20right down here in the San Francisco Bay.
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8:20 - 8:23It's a rainy, stormy, windy day,
and people are getting sick on the boat, -
8:23 - 8:27and I'm sitting there wearing a wetsuit,
and I'm looking out the window -
8:27 - 8:29in pure terror thinking
I'm about to swim to my death. -
8:29 - 8:32I'm going to try to swim
across the Golden Gate. -
8:32 - 8:35And my guess is some people in this room
might have done that before. -
8:35 - 8:39I'm sitting there, and my buddy Jonathan,
who had talked me into it, -
8:39 - 8:41he comes up to me
and he could see the state I was in. -
8:41 - 8:44And he says, "Scott, hey man,
what's the worst that could happen? -
8:44 - 8:47You're wearing a wetsuit.
You're not going to sink. -
8:47 - 8:50And If you can't make it,
just hop on one of the 20 kayaks. -
8:50 - 8:53Plus, if there's a shark attack,
why are they going to pick you -
8:53 - 8:55over the 80 people in the water?"
So thanks, that helps. -
8:55 - 8:58He's like, "But really,
just have fun with this. Good luck." -
8:58 - 9:00And he dives in, swims off. OK.
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9:00 - 9:04Turns out, the pep talk totally worked,
and I felt this total feeling of calm, -
9:04 - 9:07and I think it was because
Jonathan was 13 years old. -
9:07 - 9:09(Laughter)
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9:09 - 9:12And of the 80 people swimming that day,
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9:12 - 9:1465 of them were between
the ages of nine and 13. -
9:14 - 9:17Think how you would have approached
your world differently -
9:17 - 9:20if at nine years old you found out
you could swim a mile and a half -
9:20 - 9:23in 56-degree water
from Alcatraz to San Francisco. -
9:23 - 9:25What would you have said yes to?
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9:25 - 9:28What would you have not given up on?
What would you have tried? -
9:28 - 9:30As I'm finishing this swim,
I get to Aquatic Park, -
9:30 - 9:32and I'm getting out of the water
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9:32 - 9:34and of course half the kids
are already finished, -
9:34 - 9:37so they're cheering me on
and they're all excited. -
9:37 - 9:40And I got total Popsicle head,
if anyone's ever swam in the Bay, -
9:40 - 9:43and I'm trying to just thaw my face out,
and I'm watching people finish. -
9:43 - 9:46And I see this one kid,
something didn't look right. -
9:46 - 9:47And he's just flailing like this.
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9:48 - 9:51And he's barely able to sip some air
before he slams his head back down. -
9:51 - 9:53And I notice other parents
were watching too, -
9:53 - 9:56and I swear they were thinking
the same thing I was: -
9:56 - 9:58this is why you don't let nine-year-olds
swim from Alcatraz. -
9:58 - 10:00This was not fatigue.
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10:00 - 10:03All of a sudden, two parents
run up and grab him, -
10:03 - 10:07and they put him on their shoulders,
and they're dragging him like this, -
10:07 - 10:08totally limp.
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10:08 - 10:11And then all of a sudden
they walk a few more feet -
10:11 - 10:13and they plop him down in his wheelchair.
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10:13 - 10:16And he puts his fists up in the most
insane show of victory I've ever seen. -
10:16 - 10:19I can still feel the warmth
and the energy on this guy -
10:19 - 10:21when he made this accomplishment.
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10:21 - 10:24I had seen him earlier that day
in his wheelchair. -
10:24 - 10:26I just had no idea he was going to swim.
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10:26 - 10:29I mean, where is he
going to be in 20 years? -
10:29 - 10:31How many people told him
he couldn't do that, -
10:31 - 10:33that he would die if he tried that?
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10:33 - 10:35You prove people wrong,
you prove yourself wrong, -
10:35 - 10:37that you can make
little incremental pushes -
10:37 - 10:39of what you believe is possible.
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10:39 - 10:41You don't have to be
the fastest marathoner in the world, -
10:41 - 10:44just your own impossibilities,
to accomplish those, -
10:44 - 10:46and it starts with little bitty steps.
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10:46 - 10:48And the best way to do this
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10:48 - 10:50is to surround yourself
with passionate people. -
10:50 - 10:53The fastest things to do things
you don't think can be done -
10:53 - 10:56is to surround yourself
with people already doing them. -
10:56 - 10:58There's this quote
by Jim Rohn and it says, -
10:58 - 11:01"You are the average of the five people
you spend the most time with." -
11:01 - 11:04And there is no bigger lifehack
in the history of the world -
11:04 - 11:07from getting where you are today
to where you want to be -
11:07 - 11:09than the people you choose
to put in your corner. -
11:10 - 11:12They change everything,
and it's a proven fact. -
11:12 - 11:16In 1898, Norman Triplett did this study
with a bunch of cyclists, -
11:16 - 11:19and he would measure their times
around the track in a group, -
11:19 - 11:21and also individually.
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11:21 - 11:24And he found that every time the cyclists
in the group would cycle faster. -
11:24 - 11:27And it's been repeated
in all kinds of walks of life since then, -
11:27 - 11:29and it proves the same thing over again,
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11:29 - 11:32that the people around you matter,
and environment is everything. -
11:32 - 11:35But it's on you to control it,
because it can go both ways. -
11:35 - 11:38With 80 percent of people
who don't like the work they do, -
11:38 - 11:41that means most people around us,
not in this room, but everywhere else, -
11:41 - 11:46are encouraging complacency and keeping us
from pursuing the things that matter to us -
11:46 - 11:48so we have to manage those surroundings.
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11:48 - 11:50I found myself in this situation...
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11:50 - 11:53Personal example, a couple years ago.
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11:53 - 11:57Has anyone ever had a hobby or a passion
they poured their heart and soul into, -
11:57 - 12:01unbelievable amount of time, and they
so badly want to call it a business, -
12:01 - 12:04but no one's paying attention
and it doesn't make a dime? -
12:05 - 12:09OK, I was there for four years trying
to build this Live Your Legend movement -
12:09 - 12:13to help people do work that they genuinely
cared about and that inspired them, -
12:13 - 12:14and I was doing all I could,
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12:14 - 12:17and there were only
three people paying attention, -
12:17 - 12:20and they're all right there:
my mother, father and my wife, Chelsea. -
12:20 - 12:21Thank you guys for the support.
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12:22 - 12:27And this is how badly I wanted it,
it grew at zero percent for four years, -
12:27 - 12:29and I was about to shut it down,
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12:29 - 12:30and right about then,
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12:30 - 12:34I moved to San Francisco and started
to meet some pretty interesting people -
12:34 - 12:36who had these crazy
lifestyles of adventure, -
12:36 - 12:38of businesses and websites and blogs
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12:38 - 12:42that surrounded their passions
and helped people in a meaningful way. -
12:42 - 12:44And one of my friends,
now, he has a family of eight, -
12:44 - 12:47and he supports his whole family
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12:47 - 12:49with a blog that he writes
for twice a week. -
12:49 - 12:53They just came back from a month
in Europe, all of them together. -
12:53 - 12:55This blew my mind.
How does this even exist? -
12:55 - 12:58And I got unbelievably inspired
by seeing this, -
12:58 - 13:01and instead of shutting it down,
I decided, let's take it seriously. -
13:01 - 13:04And I did everything I could
to spend my time, -
13:04 - 13:06every waking hour possible
trying to hound these guys, -
13:06 - 13:09hanging out and having beers
and workouts, whatever it was. -
13:09 - 13:11And after four years of zero growth,
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13:11 - 13:13within six months
of hanging around these people, -
13:13 - 13:16the community at Live Your Legend
grew by 10 times. -
13:16 - 13:18In another 12 months,
it grew by 160 times. -
13:19 - 13:22And today over 30,000 people
from 158 countries -
13:22 - 13:25use our career and connection tools
on a monthly basis. -
13:25 - 13:30And those people have made up
that community of passionate folks -
13:30 - 13:32who inspired that possibility
that I dreamed of -
13:32 - 13:34for Live Your Legend so many years back.
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13:35 - 13:37The people change everything,
and this is why... -
13:38 - 13:40You know, you ask what was going on.
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13:40 - 13:42Well, for four years,
I knew nobody in this space, -
13:42 - 13:46and I didn't even know it existed,
that people could do this stuff, -
13:46 - 13:48that you could have movements like this.
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13:48 - 13:51And then I'm over here in San Francisco,
and everyone around me was doing it. -
13:51 - 13:56It became normal, so my thinking went
from how could I possibly do this -
13:56 - 13:57to how could I possibly not.
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13:57 - 14:01And right then, when that happens,
that switch goes on in your head, -
14:01 - 14:02it ripples across your whole world.
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14:02 - 14:05And without even trying,
your standards go from here to here. -
14:05 - 14:09You don't need to change your goals.
You just need to change your surroundings. -
14:09 - 14:13That's it, and that's why I love
being around this whole group of people, -
14:13 - 14:15why I go to every TED event I can,
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14:15 - 14:18and watch them on my iPad
on the way to work, whatever it is. -
14:18 - 14:21Because this is the group of people
that inspires possibility. -
14:21 - 14:24We have a whole day
to spend together and plenty more. -
14:24 - 14:28To sum things up,
in terms of these three pillars, -
14:28 - 14:32they all have one thing in common
more than anything else. -
14:32 - 14:34They are 100 percent in our control.
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14:34 - 14:37No one can tell you
you can't learn about yourself. -
14:37 - 14:40No one can tell you
you can't push your limits -
14:40 - 14:42and learn your own impossible
and push that. -
14:42 - 14:45No one can tell you you can't
surround yourself with inspiring people -
14:45 - 14:48or get away from the people
who bring you down. -
14:48 - 14:49You can't control a recession.
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14:49 - 14:52You can't control getting fired
or getting in a car accident. -
14:52 - 14:54Most things are totally out of our hands.
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14:54 - 14:56These three things are totally on us.
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14:58 - 15:02And they can change our whole world
if we decide to do something about it. -
15:03 - 15:06And the thing is, it's starting to happen
on a widespread level. -
15:06 - 15:10I just read in Forbes, the US Government
reported for the first time -
15:10 - 15:12in a month where more people
had quit their jobs -
15:12 - 15:14than had been laid off.
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15:14 - 15:17They thought this was an anomaly,
but it's happened three months straight. -
15:17 - 15:20In a time where people claim
it's kind of a tough environment, -
15:20 - 15:23people are giving a middle finger
to this scripted life, -
15:23 - 15:25the things that people
say you're supposed to do, -
15:25 - 15:29in exchange for things that matter to them
and do the things that inspire them. -
15:29 - 15:32And the thing is, people
are waking up to this possibility, -
15:32 - 15:36that really the only thing that limits
possibility now is imagination. -
15:36 - 15:38That's not a cliché anymore.
-
15:38 - 15:42I don't care what it is that you're into,
what passion, what hobby. -
15:42 - 15:45If you're into knitting, you can find
someone who is killing at knitting, -
15:45 - 15:48and you can learn from them. It's wild.
-
15:48 - 15:51And that's what this whole day is about,
to learn from the folks speaking, -
15:51 - 15:55and we profile these people
on Live Your Legend every day, -
15:55 - 15:57because when ordinary people
are doing the extraordinary, -
15:57 - 15:59and we can be around that,
-
15:59 - 16:01it becomes normal.
-
16:01 - 16:05And this isn't about being Gandhi
or Steve Jobs, doing something crazy. -
16:05 - 16:07It's just about doing something
that matters to you, -
16:07 - 16:09and makes an impact
that only you can make. -
16:11 - 16:14Speaking of Gandhi,
he was a recovering lawyer, -
16:15 - 16:16as I've heard the term,
-
16:16 - 16:19and he was called to a greater cause,
something that mattered to him, -
16:19 - 16:20he couldn't not do.
-
16:20 - 16:23And he has this quote
that I absolutely live by. -
16:23 - 16:25"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you, -
16:25 - 16:27then they fight you, then you win."
-
16:29 - 16:32Everything was impossible
until somebody did it. -
16:32 - 16:35You can either hang around the people
who tell you it can't be done -
16:35 - 16:37and tell you you're stupid for trying,
-
16:37 - 16:40or surround yourself with the people
who inspire possibility, -
16:40 - 16:42the people who are in this room.
-
16:43 - 16:47Because I see it as our responsibility
to show the world -
16:47 - 16:50that what's seen as impossible
can become that new normal. -
16:50 - 16:52And that's already starting to happen.
-
16:52 - 16:55First, do the things that inspire us,
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16:55 - 16:59so we can inspire other people
to do the things that inspire them. -
16:59 - 17:01But we can't find that
-
17:01 - 17:03unless we know what we're looking for.
-
17:03 - 17:06We have to do our work on ourselves,
-
17:06 - 17:08be intentional about that,
and make those discoveries. -
17:08 - 17:12Because I imagine a world where 80 percent
of people love the work they do. -
17:12 - 17:13What would that look like?
-
17:13 - 17:17What would the innovation be like?
How would you treat the people around you? -
17:17 - 17:18Things would start to change.
-
17:20 - 17:23And as we finish up,
I have just one question to ask you guys, -
17:23 - 17:26and I think it's the only
question that matters. -
17:26 - 17:29And it's what is the work
you can't not do? -
17:30 - 17:32Discover that, live it,
-
17:32 - 17:36not just for you,
but for everybody around you, -
17:36 - 17:38because that is what starts
to change the world. -
17:38 - 17:41What is the work you can't not do?
-
17:42 - 17:43Thank you guys.
-
17:43 - 17:45(Applause)
- Title:
- How to find work you love | Scott Dinsmore | TEDxGoldenGatePark
- Description:
-
Scott Dinsmore quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful and meaningful. He shares what he learned in this deceptively simple talk about finding out what matters to you — and then getting started doing it.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDxTalks
- Duration:
- 17:57
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