90,000 hours at work: Importance of finding purpose in work due to the extensive time spent over a lifetime.
Purpose beyond work: Recognizing that purpose can exist outside of work, but work remains significant.
Objective: This session focuses on four questions to help find personal purpose, with an emphasis on journaling and self-reflection.
Personal Experience
Background: The speaker shares their personal journey from a challenging period in life, emphasizing the overwhelming options and decision paralysis faced at age 22.
Decisions and Options: Discussing how having too many choices can lead to less satisfaction and fear of making the wrong choice, leading to inaction.
Four Key Questions to Find Purpose
1. What Would You Do If You Could Not Fail?
Objective: To eliminate fear of failure and analysis paralysis.
Inner Critic: Encouraging silencing the inner critic when brainstorming ideas.
Exercise: Setting a timer for 20 minutes to write down ideas without criticism, allowing free exploration.
2. What Excites You? When Do You Come Alive?
Opposite of Apathy: Identifying excitement as the opposite of living a non-purposeful life.
Enthusiasm: Highlighting the origin of enthusiasm as being 'possessed by God'; using excitement as a guide to finding purpose.
Practical Exercise: Keeping a log of activities or moments that spark excitement throughout the week.
3. What Would You Pay to Do? How Can You Get Paid to Do It?
Spending Analysis: Reviewing spending habits to identify passions and interests.
Content Consumption: Analyzing what content or topics are consistently consumed during free time as indicators of interest.
Personal Example: The speaker shares their journey combining YouTube and self-improvement books, leading to successful content creation.
4. What Are Your Strengths? How Can You Use Them Daily?
Martin Seligman’s Insights: Importance of knowing and utilizing strengths for happiness and fulfillment.
Strengths Tests: Recommendations for strength assessment tests like Myers-Briggs.
Quote by Pablo Picasso: "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give your gift away."
Conclusion
Self-Reflection: Encouragement to engage in self-reflection and journaling to increase self-awareness and possibly discover one's purpose.
Identity Shifting: Suggestion for further exploration into identity shifting and personal growth.
Final Message: Encouragement to stop settling and start living with purpose.