How To Know Your Life Purpose In 5 Minutes

Full text of film producer Adam Leipzig'south talk: How to Know Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes at TEDxMalibu conference.

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On the final evening of my 25th college reunion, there was a party in a tent with dancing, and music, and dissonance. So much noise that a lot of us started to drift out of the tent so we could hear each other talk and catch up with classmates that nosotros had not seen in more than than ii decades.

As I talked with my friends I made an phenomenal discovery: 80% of them were unhappy with their lives.

"I feel every bit though I've wasted my life, and I'grand half-way through information technology," they said.

"I don't know what my life is all about."

I was privileged to go to Yale, and we were standing on a summer evening in the middle of Yale's erstwhile campus, and the people that I was speaking with were privileged, and highly educated, and financially well off, and in positions of power. And they had the first house, and the second house, and they had the first spouse, and the 2d spouse. And 80% of them were unhappy with their lives.

Who was happy, the twenty%? Well, we had studied literature and Renaissance rhetoric, and nosotros were the theater people, and the history geeks. We had studied classes for the joy of learning, not because we thought they were going to put direct us to a specific job. We all the same got jobs, we were living our lives expansively, with life'south ups and downs, and we did not feel that we had wasted a single minute.

And as I spoke with the xx%, the happier twenty%, I discovered that each of them knew something nigh their life purpose because they knew five things: who they were, what they did, who they did it for, what those people wanted or needed, and what they got out of it, how they inverse equally a result.

Does that sound hard? It's not, it's really really simple. In fact information technology's and then unproblematic, that y'all can learn your life purpose now. You're going to know your life purpose at present, in the next 5 minutes.

Would yous like to know your life purpose in the next five minutes?

[Audience: Yes.]

Can you exist a piffling bit louder? Because they are making a lot of dissonance in the tent, and in that location is but a silly little microphone next to my cheek to hear you. Would you similar to know your life purpose in the next five minutes?

[Audience: Yes.]

Thank you. Actually, it's non even going to take five minutes.

So, can I share something else with you? If yous're like a lot of us, yous have wondered and worried almost your life purpose for a long time, and there are books, and magazines, and workshops, and seminars about it. In fact, Amazon lists 151,928 books that refer to how y'all can learn your life purpose.

Well, I know some people who have spent their entire lives trying to learn their life purpose. Look, we can all agree that the unexamined life is not worth living, only if all you're doing is examining, you're not living.

So, let'due south effigy out the life purpose right now together: who y'all are, what y'all exercise, who you do it for, what those people want and demand, and how they change as a result. Shall we do it?

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