0:00:00.240,0:00:03.256
Wow, what an honor. I always wondered[br]what this would feel like.

0:00:03.280,0:00:08.055
So eight years ago,[br]I got the worst career advice of my life.

0:00:08.080,0:00:09.536
I had a friend tell me,

0:00:09.560,0:00:12.496
"Don't worry about how much[br]you like the work you're doing now.

0:00:12.520,0:00:14.536
It's all about just building your resume."

0:00:14.560,0:00:17.216
And I'd just come back[br]from living in Spain for a while,

0:00:17.240,0:00:20.574
and I'd joined this Fortune 500 company.[br]I thought, "This is fantastic.

0:00:20.598,0:00:22.614
I'm going to have[br]big impact on the world."

0:00:22.638,0:00:25.336
I had all these ideas.[br]And within about two months,

0:00:25.360,0:00:28.360
I noticed at about 10am every morning[br]I had this strange urge

0:00:28.384,0:00:31.936
to want to slam my head[br]through the monitor of my computer.

0:00:31.960,0:00:33.865
I don't know if anyone's ever felt that.

0:00:33.889,0:00:37.416
And I noticed pretty soon after that[br]that all the competitors in our space

0:00:37.440,0:00:40.336
had already automated my job role.

0:00:40.360,0:00:44.576
And this is right about when I got[br]this sage advice to build up my resume.

0:00:44.600,0:00:46.616
Well, as I'm trying to figure out

0:00:46.640,0:00:53.136
what two-story window I'm going[br]to jump out of and change things up,

0:00:53.160,0:00:56.896
I read some altogether different advice[br]from Warren Buffett, and he said,

0:00:56.920,0:01:02.536
"Taking jobs to build up your resume[br]is the same as saving up sex for old age."

0:01:02.560,0:01:04.296
(Laughter)

0:01:04.319,0:01:06.616
And I heard that,[br]and that was all I needed.

0:01:06.640,0:01:09.856
Within two weeks, I was out of there,[br]and I left with one intention:

0:01:09.880,0:01:12.936
to find something that I could screw up.[br]That's how tough it was.

0:01:12.960,0:01:15.976
I wanted to have some type of impact.[br]It didn't matter what it was.

0:01:16.000,0:01:18.715
And I found pretty quickly[br]that I wasn't alone:

0:01:18.739,0:01:21.576
it turns out that over 80 percent[br]of the people around

0:01:21.600,0:01:23.096
don't enjoy their work.

0:01:23.120,0:01:24.656
I'm guessing this room is different,

0:01:24.680,0:01:27.536
but that's the average[br]that Deloitte has done with their studies.

0:01:27.560,0:01:30.608
So I wanted to find out,[br]what is it that sets these people apart,

0:01:30.632,0:01:32.968
the people who do the passionate,[br]world-changing work,

0:01:32.992,0:01:34.616
that wake up inspired every day,

0:01:34.640,0:01:36.416
and then these people,[br]the other 80 percent

0:01:36.440,0:01:38.496
who lead these lives of quiet desperation.

0:01:38.520,0:01:41.776
So I started to interview all these people[br]doing this inspiring work,

0:01:41.800,0:01:44.616
and I read books and did case studies,

0:01:44.640,0:01:47.336
300 books altogether[br]on purpose and career and all this,

0:01:47.360,0:01:51.680
totally just self-immersion,[br]really for the selfish reason of --

0:01:52.240,0:01:54.736
I wanted to find the work[br]that I couldn't not do,

0:01:54.760,0:01:56.296
what that was for me.

0:01:56.320,0:01:58.962
But as I was doing this,[br]more and more people started to ask me,

0:01:58.986,0:02:00.456
"You're into this career thing.

0:02:00.480,0:02:02.696
I don't like my job.[br]Can we sit down for lunch?"

0:02:02.720,0:02:04.896
I'd say, "Sure."[br]But I would have to warn them,

0:02:04.920,0:02:07.216
because at this point,[br]my quit rate was also 80 percent.

0:02:07.240,0:02:10.466
Of the people I'd sit down with for lunch,[br]80 percent would quit their job

0:02:10.491,0:02:11.656
within two months.

0:02:11.680,0:02:15.896
I was proud of this, and it wasn't[br]that I had any special magic.

0:02:15.920,0:02:17.968
It was that I would ask[br]one simple question.

0:02:17.992,0:02:20.608
It was, "Why are you doing[br]the work that you're doing?"

0:02:20.632,0:02:22.736
And so often their answer would be,

0:02:22.760,0:02:25.056
"Well, because somebody[br]told me I'm supposed to."

0:02:25.080,0:02:27.216
And I realized that so many[br]people around us

0:02:27.240,0:02:30.856
are climbing their way up this ladder[br]that someone tells them to climb,

0:02:30.880,0:02:33.416
and it ends up being leaned up[br]against the wrong wall,

0:02:33.440,0:02:35.096
or no wall at all.

0:02:35.120,0:02:37.816
The more time I spent around[br]these people and saw this problem,

0:02:37.840,0:02:40.056
I thought, what if we could[br]create a community,

0:02:40.080,0:02:42.456
a place where people[br]could feel like they belonged

0:02:42.480,0:02:44.623
and that it was OK[br]to do things differently,

0:02:44.647,0:02:47.362
to take the road less traveled,[br]where that was encouraged,

0:02:47.386,0:02:49.936
and inspire people to change?

0:02:49.960,0:02:52.656
And that later became[br]what I now call Live Your Legend,

0:02:52.680,0:02:54.347
which I'll explain in a little bit.

0:02:54.371,0:02:58.056
But as I've made these discoveries,[br]I noticed a framework

0:02:58.080,0:02:59.461
of really three simple things

0:02:59.485,0:03:02.616
that all these different passionate[br]world-changers have in common,

0:03:02.640,0:03:05.296
whether you're a Steve Jobs[br]or if you're just, you know,

0:03:05.320,0:03:07.376
the person that has[br]the bakery down the street.

0:03:07.400,0:03:09.416
But you're doing work[br]that embodies who you are.

0:03:09.440,0:03:12.336
I want to share those three with you,[br]so we can use them as a lens

0:03:12.360,0:03:15.027
for the rest of today[br]and hopefully the rest of our life.

0:03:15.051,0:03:17.827
The first part of this three-step[br]passionate work framework

0:03:17.851,0:03:20.776
is becoming a self-expert[br]and understanding yourself,

0:03:20.800,0:03:23.456
because if you don't know[br]what you're looking for,

0:03:23.480,0:03:25.096
you're never going to find it.

0:03:25.120,0:03:27.740
And the thing is that no one[br]is going to do this for us.

0:03:27.764,0:03:31.456
There's no major in university[br]on passion and purpose and career.

0:03:31.480,0:03:33.736
I don't know how that's not[br]a required double major,

0:03:33.760,0:03:35.576
but don't even get me started on that.

0:03:35.600,0:03:38.576
I mean, you spend more time[br]picking out a dorm room TV set

0:03:38.600,0:03:41.536
than you do you picking your major[br]and your area of study.

0:03:41.560,0:03:44.176
But the point is,[br]it's on us to figure that out,

0:03:44.200,0:03:47.416
and we need a framework,[br]we need a way to navigate through this.

0:03:47.440,0:03:51.298
And so the first step of our compass is[br]finding out what our unique strengths are.

0:03:51.322,0:03:54.336
What are the things that we wake up[br]loving to do no matter what,

0:03:54.360,0:03:57.856
whether we're paid or we're not paid,[br]the things that people thank us for?

0:03:57.880,0:04:00.856
And the Strengths Finder 2.0[br]is a book and also an online tool.

0:04:00.880,0:04:04.616
I highly recommend it for sorting out[br]what it is that you're naturally good at.

0:04:04.640,0:04:09.056
And next, what's our framework[br]or our hierarchy for making decisions?

0:04:09.080,0:04:13.296
Do we care about the people,[br]our family, health,

0:04:13.320,0:04:15.456
or is it achievement, success,[br]all this stuff?

0:04:15.480,0:04:18.147
We have to figure out what it is[br]to make these decisions,

0:04:18.171,0:04:19.896
so we know what our soul is made of,

0:04:19.920,0:04:24.616
so that we don't go selling it[br]to some cause we don't give a shit about.

0:04:24.640,0:04:28.336
And then the next step is our experiences.

0:04:28.360,0:04:31.816
All of us have these experiences.[br]We learn things every day, every minute

0:04:31.840,0:04:33.536
about what we love, what we hate,

0:04:33.560,0:04:35.560
what we're good at,[br]what we're terrible at.

0:04:35.584,0:04:37.976
And if we don't spend time[br]paying attention to that

0:04:38.000,0:04:39.536
and assimilating that learning

0:04:39.560,0:04:42.536
and applying it to the rest of our lives,[br]it's all for nothing.

0:04:42.560,0:04:45.216
Every day, every week,[br]every month of every year

0:04:45.240,0:04:47.696
I spend some time[br]just reflecting on what went right,

0:04:47.720,0:04:49.863
what went wrong,[br]and what do I want to repeat,

0:04:49.887,0:04:51.463
what can I apply more to my life.

0:04:51.487,0:04:54.576
And even more so than that,[br]as you see people, especially today,

0:04:54.600,0:04:56.981
who inspire you, who are doing[br]things where you say

0:04:57.005,0:04:59.936
"Oh God, what Jeff is doing,[br]I want to be like him."

0:04:59.960,0:05:01.681
Why are you saying that?[br]Open up a journal.

0:05:01.706,0:05:03.776
Write down what it is about them[br]that inspires you.

0:05:03.800,0:05:05.856
It's not going to be[br]everything about their life,

0:05:05.880,0:05:07.696
but whatever it is, take note on that,

0:05:07.720,0:05:10.016
so over time we'll have[br]this repository of things

0:05:10.040,0:05:14.256
that we can use to apply to our life[br]and have a more passionate existence

0:05:14.280,0:05:15.776
and make a better impact.

0:05:15.800,0:05:18.181
Because when we start[br]to put these things together,

0:05:18.205,0:05:21.496
we can then define[br]what success actually means to us,

0:05:21.520,0:05:24.656
and without these different parts[br]of the compass, it's impossible.

0:05:24.680,0:05:27.300
We end up in the situation --[br]we have that scripted life

0:05:27.324,0:05:30.456
that everybody seems to be living[br]going up this ladder to nowhere.

0:05:30.480,0:05:33.136
It's kind of like in Wall Street 2,[br]if anybody saw that,

0:05:33.160,0:05:36.976
the peon employee asks[br]the big Wall Street banker CEO,

0:05:37.000,0:05:39.136
"What's your number?[br]Everyone's got a number,

0:05:39.160,0:05:41.696
where if they make this money,[br]they'll leave it all."

0:05:41.720,0:05:44.240
He says, "Oh, it's simple. More."

0:05:45.120,0:05:46.416
And he just smiles.

0:05:46.440,0:05:48.216
And it's the sad state[br]of most of the people

0:05:48.240,0:05:50.776
that haven't spent time[br]understanding what matters for them,

0:05:50.800,0:05:53.536
who keep reaching for something[br]that doesn't mean anything to us,

0:05:53.560,0:05:56.056
but we're doing it because everyone[br]said we're supposed to.

0:05:56.080,0:05:57.816
But once we have this framework together,

0:05:57.840,0:06:00.456
we can start to identify[br]the things that make us come alive.

0:06:00.480,0:06:03.696
You know, before this, a passion[br]could come and hit you in the face,

0:06:03.720,0:06:06.416
or maybe in your possible line of work,[br]you might throw it away

0:06:06.440,0:06:08.631
because you don't have[br]a way of identifying it.

0:06:08.655,0:06:12.191
But once you do, you can see something[br]that's congruent with my strengths,

0:06:12.215,0:06:14.016
my values, who I am as a person,

0:06:14.040,0:06:17.326
so I'm going to grab ahold of this,[br]I'm going to do something with it,

0:06:17.350,0:06:20.208
and I'm going to pursue it[br]and try to make an impact with it.

0:06:20.232,0:06:22.776
And Live Your Legend[br]and the movement we've built

0:06:22.800,0:06:25.467
wouldn't exist if I didn't have[br]this compass to identify,

0:06:25.491,0:06:28.736
"Wow, this is something I want to pursue[br]and make a difference with."

0:06:28.760,0:06:31.816
If we don't know what we're looking for,[br]we're never going to find it,

0:06:31.840,0:06:34.376
but once we have[br]this framework, this compass,

0:06:34.400,0:06:38.856
then we can move on to what's next --[br]and that's not me up there --

0:06:38.880,0:06:41.096
doing the impossible[br]and pushing our limits.

0:06:41.120,0:06:43.136
There's two reasons[br]why people don't do things.

0:06:43.160,0:06:45.136
One is they tell themselves[br]they can't do them,

0:06:45.160,0:06:47.296
or people around them[br]tell them they can't do them.

0:06:47.320,0:06:48.856
Either way, we start to believe it.

0:06:48.880,0:06:51.256
Either we give up,[br]or we never start in the first place.

0:06:51.280,0:06:54.176
The things is, everything was impossible[br]until somebody did it.

0:06:54.200,0:06:56.736
Every invention,[br]every new thing in the world,

0:06:56.760,0:06:58.427
people thought were crazy at first.

0:06:58.451,0:07:01.880
Roger Bannister and the four-minute mile,[br]it was a physical impossibility

0:07:01.904,0:07:04.296
to break the four-minute mile[br]in a foot race

0:07:04.320,0:07:06.336
until Roger Bannister stood up and did it.

0:07:06.360,0:07:07.576
And then what happened?

0:07:07.600,0:07:10.216
Two months later,[br]16 people broke the four-minute mile.

0:07:10.240,0:07:12.976
The things that we have in our head[br]that we think are impossible

0:07:13.000,0:07:15.136
are often just milestones[br]waiting to be accomplished

0:07:15.160,0:07:16.780
if we can push those limits a bit.

0:07:16.804,0:07:20.176
And I think this starts with probably[br]your physical body and fitness

0:07:20.200,0:07:22.736
more than anything,[br]because we can control that.

0:07:22.760,0:07:24.376
If you don't think you can run a mile,

0:07:24.400,0:07:26.456
you show yourself[br]you can run a mile or two,

0:07:26.480,0:07:29.016
or a marathon, or lose five pounds,[br]or whatever it is,

0:07:29.040,0:07:31.536
you realize that confidence compounds

0:07:31.560,0:07:34.056
and can be transferred[br]into the rest of your world.

0:07:34.080,0:07:37.736
And I've actually gotten into the habit[br]of this a little bit with my friends.

0:07:37.760,0:07:40.496
We have this little group.[br]We go on physical adventures,

0:07:40.520,0:07:43.616
and recently, I found myself[br]in a kind of precarious spot.

0:07:43.640,0:07:46.656
I'm terrified of deep, dark, blue water.

0:07:46.680,0:07:48.696
I don't know if anyone's ever had[br]that same fear

0:07:48.720,0:07:51.319
ever since they watched[br]Jaws 1, 2, 3 and 4 like six times

0:07:51.344,0:07:52.496
when I was a kid.

0:07:52.520,0:07:57.056
But anything above here, if it's murky,[br]I can already feel it right now.

0:07:57.080,0:07:58.856
I swear there's something in there.

0:07:58.880,0:08:02.016
Even if it's Lake Tahoe,[br]it's fresh water, totally unfounded fear,

0:08:02.040,0:08:03.696
ridiculous, but it's there.

0:08:03.720,0:08:06.216
Anyway, three years ago[br]I find myself on this tugboat

0:08:06.240,0:08:08.216
right down here in the San Francisco Bay.

0:08:08.240,0:08:11.696
It's a rainy, stormy, windy day,[br]and people are getting sick on the boat,

0:08:11.720,0:08:15.054
and I'm sitting there wearing a wetsuit,[br]and I'm looking out the window

0:08:15.078,0:08:18.056
in pure terror thinking[br]I'm about to swim to my death.

0:08:18.080,0:08:20.336
I'm going to try to swim[br]across the Golden Gate.

0:08:20.360,0:08:24.176
And my guess is some people in this room[br]might have done that before.

0:08:24.200,0:08:27.416
I'm sitting there, and my buddy Jonathan,[br]who had talked me into it,

0:08:27.440,0:08:29.696
he comes up to me[br]and he could see the state I was in.

0:08:29.720,0:08:32.456
And he says, "Scott, hey man,[br]what's the worst that could happen?

0:08:32.480,0:08:34.616
You're wearing a wetsuit.[br]You're not going to sink.

0:08:34.640,0:08:37.456
And If you can't make it,[br]just hop on one of the 20 kayaks.

0:08:37.480,0:08:40.296
Plus, if there's a shark attack,[br]why are they going to pick you

0:08:40.320,0:08:42.940
over the 80 people in the water?"[br]So thanks, that helps.

0:08:42.964,0:08:45.820
He's like, "But really,[br]just have fun with this. Good luck."

0:08:45.844,0:08:48.336
And he dives in, swims off. OK.

0:08:48.360,0:08:52.736
Turns out, the pep talk totally worked,[br]and I felt this total feeling of calm,

0:08:52.760,0:08:55.696
and I think it was because[br]Jonathan was 13 years old.

0:08:55.720,0:08:57.656
(Laughter)

0:08:57.680,0:09:00.376
And of the 80 people swimming that day,

0:09:00.400,0:09:03.216
65 of them were between[br]the ages of nine and 13.

0:09:03.240,0:09:05.976
Think how you would have approached[br]your world differently

0:09:06.000,0:09:09.176
if at nine years old you found out[br]you could swim a mile and a half

0:09:09.200,0:09:11.896
in 56-degree water[br]from Alcatraz to San Francisco.

0:09:11.920,0:09:13.336
What would you have said yes to?

0:09:13.360,0:09:16.216
What would you have not given up on?[br]What would you have tried?

0:09:16.240,0:09:18.336
As I'm finishing this swim,[br]I get to Aquatic Park,

0:09:18.360,0:09:19.736
and I'm getting out of the water

0:09:19.760,0:09:21.856
and of course half the kids[br]are already finished,

0:09:21.880,0:09:24.214
so they're cheering me on[br]and they're all excited.

0:09:24.238,0:09:27.254
And I got total popsicle head,[br]if anyone's ever swam in the Bay,

0:09:27.278,0:09:30.776
and I'm trying to just thaw my face out,[br]and I'm watching people finish.

0:09:30.810,0:09:33.826
And I see this one kid,[br]something didn't look right.

0:09:33.840,0:09:35.856
And he's just flailing like this.

0:09:35.880,0:09:39.296
And he's barely able to sip some air[br]before he slams his head back down.

0:09:39.320,0:09:41.536
And I notice other parents[br]were watching too,

0:09:41.560,0:09:44.016
and I swear they were thinking[br]the same thing I was:

0:09:44.040,0:09:47.976
this is why you don't let nine-year-olds[br]swim from Alcatraz.

0:09:48.000,0:09:49.216
This was not fatigue.

0:09:49.240,0:09:51.536
All of a sudden, two parents[br]run up and grab him,

0:09:51.560,0:09:55.336
and they put him on their shoulders,[br]and they're dragging him like this,

0:09:55.360,0:09:57.216
totally limp.

0:09:57.240,0:09:59.576
And then all of a sudden[br]they walk a few more feet

0:09:59.600,0:10:01.576
and they plop him down in his wheelchair.

0:10:01.600,0:10:05.136
And he puts his fists up in the most[br]insane show of victory I've ever seen.

0:10:05.160,0:10:07.816
I can still feel the warmth[br]and the energy on this guy

0:10:07.840,0:10:09.416
when he made this accomplishment.

0:10:09.440,0:10:12.416
I had seen him earlier that day[br]in his wheelchair.

0:10:12.440,0:10:14.416
I just had no idea he was going to swim.

0:10:14.440,0:10:17.536
I mean, where is he[br]going to be in 20 years?

0:10:17.560,0:10:20.976
How many people told him he couldn't[br]do that, that he would die if he tried that?

0:10:21.000,0:10:23.136
You prove people wrong,[br]you prove yourself wrong,

0:10:23.160,0:10:24.976
that you can make[br]little incremental pushes

0:10:25.000,0:10:26.536
of what you believe is possible.

0:10:26.560,0:10:28.976
You don't have to be[br]the fastest marathoner in the world,

0:10:29.000,0:10:31.381
just your own impossibilities,[br]to accomplish those,

0:10:31.405,0:10:33.381
and it starts with little bitty steps.

0:10:33.405,0:10:35.736
And the best way to do this

0:10:35.760,0:10:37.976
is to surround yourself[br]with passionate people.

0:10:38.000,0:10:40.762
The fastest things to do things[br]you don't think can be done

0:10:40.786,0:10:43.358
is to surround yourself[br]with people already doing them.

0:10:43.382,0:10:45.816
There's this quote by Jim Rohn and it says.

0:10:45.840,0:10:49.216
"You are the average of the five people[br]you spend the most time with."

0:10:49.240,0:10:52.536
And there is no bigger lifehack[br]in the history of the world

0:10:52.560,0:10:55.616
from getting where you are today[br]to where you want to be

0:10:55.640,0:10:58.536
than the people you choose[br]to put in your corner.

0:10:58.560,0:11:00.856
They change everything,[br]and it's a proven fact.

0:11:00.880,0:11:05.176
In 1898, Norman Triplett did this study[br]with a bunch of cyclists,

0:11:05.200,0:11:08.000
and he would measure their times[br]around the track in a group,

0:11:08.025,0:11:09.176
and also individually.

0:11:09.200,0:11:12.896
And he found that every time the cyclists[br]in the group would cycle faster.

0:11:12.920,0:11:15.736
And it's been repeated[br]in all kinds of walks of life since then,

0:11:15.760,0:11:17.656
and it proves the same thing over again,

0:11:17.680,0:11:20.536
that the people around you matter,[br]and environment is everything.

0:11:20.560,0:11:23.136
But it's on you to control it,[br]because it can go both ways.

0:11:23.160,0:11:25.736
With 80 percent of people[br]who don't like the work they do,

0:11:25.760,0:11:28.936
that means most people around us,[br]not in this room, but everywhere else,

0:11:28.960,0:11:32.616
are encouraging complacency and keeping us[br]from pursuing the things that matter to us

0:11:32.640,0:11:34.696
so we have to manage those surroundings.

0:11:34.720,0:11:36.720
I found myself in this situation --

0:11:38.680,0:11:41.576
personal example, a couple years ago.

0:11:41.600,0:11:45.776
Has anyone ever had a hobby or a passion[br]they poured their heart and soul into,

0:11:45.800,0:11:49.296
unbelievable amount of time, and they[br]so badly want to call it a business,

0:11:49.320,0:11:53.456
but no one's paying attention[br]and it doesn't make a dime?

0:11:53.480,0:11:57.576
OK, I was there for four years trying[br]to build this Live Your Legend movement

0:11:57.600,0:12:00.936
to help people do work that they genuinely[br]cared about and that inspired them,

0:12:00.960,0:12:02.296
and I was doing all I could,

0:12:02.320,0:12:04.496
and there were only[br]three people paying attention,

0:12:04.520,0:12:07.759
and they're all right there:[br]my mother, father and my wife, Chelsea.

0:12:07.783,0:12:09.279
Thank you guys for the support.

0:12:09.303,0:12:10.776
(Applause)

0:12:10.800,0:12:15.496
And this is how badly I wanted it,[br]it grew at zero percent for four years,

0:12:15.520,0:12:17.496
and I was about to shut it down,

0:12:17.520,0:12:19.216
and right about then,

0:12:19.240,0:12:22.776
I moved to San Francisco and started[br]to meet some pretty interesting people

0:12:22.800,0:12:25.016
who had these crazy[br]lifestyles of adventure,

0:12:25.040,0:12:27.056
of businesses and websites and blogs

0:12:27.080,0:12:30.336
that surrounded their passions[br]and helped people in a meaningful way.

0:12:30.360,0:12:33.016
And one of my friends,[br]now, he has a family of eight,

0:12:33.040,0:12:35.376
and he supports his whole family

0:12:35.400,0:12:38.256
with a blog that he[br]writes for twice a week.

0:12:38.280,0:12:41.328
They just came back from a month[br]in Europe, all of them together.

0:12:41.352,0:12:43.416
This blew my mind.[br]How does this even exist?

0:12:43.440,0:12:46.936
And I got unbelievably inspired[br]by seeing this,

0:12:46.960,0:12:49.936
and instead of shutting it down,[br]I decided, let's take it seriously.

0:12:49.960,0:12:51.936
And I did everything I could[br]to spend my time,

0:12:51.960,0:12:54.456
every waking hour possible[br]trying to hound these guys,

0:12:54.480,0:12:57.256
hanging out and having beers[br]and workouts, whatever it was.

0:12:57.280,0:12:59.016
And after four years of zero growth,

0:12:59.040,0:13:01.376
within six months[br]of hanging around these people,

0:13:01.400,0:13:04.096
the community at Live Your Legend[br]grew by 10 times.

0:13:04.120,0:13:07.976
In another 12 months,[br]it grew by 160 times.

0:13:08.000,0:13:11.056
And today over 30,000 people[br]from 158 countries

0:13:11.080,0:13:14.176
use our career and connection tools[br]on a monthly basis.

0:13:14.200,0:13:18.576
And those people have made up[br]that community of passionate folks

0:13:18.600,0:13:20.816
who inspired that possibility[br]that I dreamed of

0:13:20.840,0:13:24.016
for Live Your Legend so many years back.

0:13:24.040,0:13:26.296
The people change everything,[br]and this is why --

0:13:26.320,0:13:28.536
you know, you ask what was going on.

0:13:28.560,0:13:31.016
Well, for four years,[br]I knew nobody in this space,

0:13:31.040,0:13:34.536
and I didn't even know it existed,[br]that people could do this stuff,

0:13:34.560,0:13:36.536
that you could have movements like this.

0:13:36.560,0:13:40.216
And then I'm over here in San Francisco,[br]and everyone around me was doing it.

0:13:40.240,0:13:44.336
It became normal, so my thinking went[br]from how could I possibly do this

0:13:44.360,0:13:46.176
to how could I possibly not.

0:13:46.200,0:13:49.416
And right then, when that happens,[br]that switch goes on in your head,

0:13:49.440,0:13:51.107
it ripples across your whole world.

0:13:51.131,0:13:54.056
And without even trying,[br]your standards go from here to here.

0:13:54.080,0:13:57.795
You don't need to change your goals.[br]You just need to change your surroundings.

0:13:57.819,0:14:02.176
That's it, and that's why I love[br]being around this whole group of people,

0:14:02.200,0:14:03.820
why I go to every TED event I can,

0:14:03.844,0:14:06.776
and watch them on my iPad[br]on the way to work, whatever it is.

0:14:06.800,0:14:10.216
Because this is the group of people[br]that inspires possibility.

0:14:10.240,0:14:13.256
We have a whole day[br]to spend together and plenty more.

0:14:13.280,0:14:16.736
To sum things up,[br]in terms of these three pillars,

0:14:16.760,0:14:20.696
they all have one thing in common[br]more than anything else.

0:14:20.720,0:14:23.176
They are 100 percent in our control.

0:14:23.200,0:14:26.256
No one can tell you[br]you can't learn about yourself.

0:14:26.280,0:14:28.423
No one can tell you[br]you can't push your limits

0:14:28.447,0:14:30.736
and learn your own impossible[br]and push that.

0:14:30.760,0:14:33.696
No one can tell you you can't[br]surround yourself with inspiring people

0:14:33.720,0:14:35.911
or get away from the people[br]who bring you down.

0:14:35.935,0:14:37.364
You can't control a recession.

0:14:37.388,0:14:40.576
You can't control getting fired[br]or getting in a car accident.

0:14:40.600,0:14:42.696
Most things are totally out of our hands.

0:14:42.720,0:14:45.080
These three things are totally on us,

0:14:47.000,0:14:51.150
and they can change our whole world[br]if we decide to do something about it.

0:14:52.080,0:14:55.080
And the thing is, it's starting to happen[br]on a widespread level.

0:14:55.104,0:14:58.295
I just read in Forbes, the US Government[br]reported for the first time

0:14:58.319,0:15:01.016
in a month where more people[br]had quit their jobs

0:15:01.040,0:15:02.376
than had been laid off.

0:15:02.400,0:15:05.616
They thought this was an anomaly,[br]but it's happened three months straight.

0:15:05.640,0:15:08.336
In a time where people claim[br]it's kind of a tough environment,

0:15:08.360,0:15:10.696
people are giving a middle finger[br]to this scripted life,

0:15:10.720,0:15:12.776
the things that people[br]say you're supposed to do,

0:15:12.800,0:15:16.536
in exchange for things that matter to them[br]and do the things that inspire them.

0:15:16.560,0:15:19.336
And the thing is, people[br]are waking up to this possibility,

0:15:19.360,0:15:25.336
that really the only thing that limits[br]possibility now is imagination.

0:15:25.360,0:15:27.336
That's not a cliché anymore.

0:15:27.360,0:15:30.536
I don't care what it is that you're into,[br]what passion, what hobby.

0:15:30.560,0:15:34.016
If you're into knitting, you can find[br]someone who is killing it knitting,

0:15:34.040,0:15:36.376
and you can learn from them. It's wild.

0:15:36.400,0:15:39.896
And that's what this whole day is about,[br]to learn from the folks speaking,

0:15:39.920,0:15:43.336
and we profile these people[br]on Live Your Legend every day,

0:15:43.360,0:15:46.056
because when ordinary people[br]are doing the extraordinary,

0:15:46.080,0:15:47.856
and we can be around that,

0:15:47.880,0:15:49.616
it becomes normal.

0:15:49.640,0:15:53.736
And this isn't about being Gandhi[br]or Steve Jobs, doing something crazy.

0:15:53.760,0:15:56.189
It's just about doing something[br]that matters to you,

0:15:56.213,0:15:58.253
and makes an impact[br]that only you can make.

0:15:59.600,0:16:03.256
Speaking of Gandhi,[br]he was a recovering lawyer,

0:16:03.280,0:16:04.616
as I've heard the term,

0:16:04.640,0:16:07.896
and he was called to a greater cause,[br]something that mattered to him,

0:16:07.920,0:16:09.136
he couldn't not do.

0:16:09.160,0:16:11.399
And he has this quote[br]that I absolutely live by.

0:16:11.423,0:16:13.736
"First they ignore you,[br]then they laugh at you,

0:16:13.760,0:16:15.880
then they fight you, then you win."

0:16:17.960,0:16:20.616
Everything was impossible[br]until somebody did it.

0:16:20.640,0:16:23.816
You can either hang around the people[br]who tell you it can't be done

0:16:23.840,0:16:25.656
and tell you you're stupid for trying,

0:16:25.680,0:16:28.976
or surround yourself with the people[br]who inspire possibility,

0:16:29.000,0:16:30.600
the people who are in this room.

0:16:31.600,0:16:35.496
Because I see it as our responsibility[br]to show the world

0:16:35.520,0:16:38.936
that what's seen as impossible[br]can become that new normal.

0:16:38.960,0:16:41.136
And that's already starting to happen.

0:16:41.160,0:16:43.856
First, do the things that inspire us,

0:16:43.880,0:16:47.576
so we can inspire other people[br]to do the things that inspire them.

0:16:47.600,0:16:49.240
But we can't find that

0:16:50.200,0:16:52.256
unless we know what we're looking for.

0:16:52.280,0:16:54.376
We have to do our work on ourself,

0:16:54.400,0:16:56.976
be intentional about that,[br]and make those discoveries.

0:16:57.000,0:17:00.524
Because I imagine a world where 80 percent[br]of people love the work they do.

0:17:00.548,0:17:01.856
What would that look like?

0:17:01.880,0:17:05.896
What would the innovation be like?[br]How would you treat the people around you?

0:17:05.920,0:17:07.300
Things would start to change.

0:17:08.800,0:17:12.016
And as we finish up,[br]I have just one question to ask you guys,

0:17:12.040,0:17:14.776
and I think it's the only[br]question that matters.

0:17:14.800,0:17:17.400
And it's what is the work[br]you can't not do?

0:17:18.480,0:17:20.736
Discover that, live it,

0:17:20.760,0:17:23.440
not just for you,[br]but for everybody around you,

0:17:24.400,0:17:27.256
because that is what starts[br]to change the world.

0:17:27.280,0:17:29.600
What is the work you can't not do?

0:17:30.400,0:17:31.616
Thank you guys.

0:17:31.640,0:17:34.160
(Applause)