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  1. Wow, what an honor.0:10
  2. I've always wondered what this would feel like.0:11
  3. So eight years ago, I got the worst career advice of my life.0:14
  4. I had a friend tell me, Scott, don't worry about how much you like the work you're doing right now.0:18
  5. It's all about just building your resume.0:22
  6. And I'd just come back from living in Spain for a while and I joined this Fortune 500 company.0:25
  7. I thought, this is fantastic.0:29
  8. I'm going to have this big impact on the world and all these ideas.0:30
  9. And within about two months, I noticed at about 10 a .m.0:34
  10. every morning, I had this strange urge to want to slam my head through the monitor of my computer.0:37
  11. I don't know if anyone's ever felt that.0:42
  12. And I noticed pretty soon after that that all the competitors in our space had already automated my job role.0:44
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  1. This is about right about when I got this sage advice to build up my resume.0:51
  2. Well, as I'm trying to figure out what, as I'm trying to figure out what, you know, two -story window I'm going to jump out of and change things up,0:54
  3. I read some altogether different advice from Warren Buffett.1:03
  4. And he said, taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.1:06
  5. And I heard that and that was all I needed.1:14
  6. Within two weeks, I was out of there and I left with one intention to find something that I could screw up.1:17
  7. That's how tough it was.1:22
  8. I just wanted to have some type of an impact.1:22
  9. It didn't matter what it was.1:24
  10. And I found out pretty quickly after that that I wasn't alone.1:26
  11. It turns out over 80 % of the people around don't enjoy their work.1:29
  12. I'm guessing this room is different, but that's the average that Deloitte has done with their studies.1:33
  13. And so I wanted to find out what is it that sets these people apart, the people who do the passionate world -changing work, they wake up inspired every day.1:37
  14. And then these people, the other 80 % who lead these lives of quiet desperation.1:45
  15. So I started to interview all these people doing this inspiring work.1:48
  16. And I read books and did case studies and 300 books all together on purpose and career and all this.1:52
  17. Totally just self -immersion.1:57
  18. Really for the selfless reason of I wanted to find the work that I couldn't not do.1:59
  19. What that was for me.2:05
  20. But as I was doing this, more and more people started to ask me, Scott, you're into this career thing.2:06
  21. I don't really like my job.2:10
  22. Can we sit down for lunch and say sure, but I would have to warn them because at this point my quit rate was also 80%.2:11
  23. Of the people I'd sit down with for lunch, 80 % would quit their job within two months.2:17
  24. And this is something, I was damn proud of this.2:22
  25. And it wasn't that I had, it wasn't that I had anything special magic, it was that I would ask one simple question.2:24
  26. It was why are you doing the work that you're doing?2:29
  27. And so often their answer would be, well, because somebody told me I'm supposed to.2:31
  28. And I realized that so many people around us are climbing their way up this ladder that someone tells them to climb and ends up being leaned up against the2:36
  29. wrong wall or no wall at all.2:43
  30. And so the more time I spent around these people and saw this problem, I thought, what if we could create a community, a place where people could feel like2:45
  31. they belonged and that it was okay to do things differently, to take the road less travel, where that was encouraged and inspire people to change.2:52
  32. And that later became what I now call Live Your Legend, which I'll explain in a little bit.3:01
  33. But as we've done this, as I've made these discoveries, I noticed a framework of really three simple things that all these different passionate world changers have in common, whether3:05
  34. you're like a Steve Jobs or if you're just, the person has the bakery down the street, but you're doing work that embodies who you are.3:13
  35. I want to share those three with you so we can use them as a lens for the rest of today and hopefully the rest of our life.3:20
  36. The first part of this three -step passionate work framework is becoming a self -expert and understanding yourself.3:25
  37. Because if you don't know what you're looking for, you're never going to find it.3:32
  38. And the thing is that no one's going to do this for us.3:36
  39. There's no major in university on passion and purpose and career.3:38
  40. I don't know how that's not a required double major, but don't even get me started on that.3:42
  41. I mean, you spend more time picking out a dorm room TV set than you do picking your major in your area of study.3:46
  42. But the point is it's on us to figure that out.3:52
  43. And we need a framework.3:55
  44. We need a way to navigate through this.3:56
  45. And so the first step of our compass is finding what our unique strengths are.3:58
  46. What are the things that we wake up loving to do no matter what, whether paid or not paid, the things that people thank us for?4:02
  47. And Strengths Finder 2 .0 is a book and also an online tool highly recommended for sorting out what it is that you're naturally good at.4:08
  48. And then next, what's our framework or our hierarchy from making decisions?4:15
  49. You know, is it the people that are, do we care about, you know, the people, our family, health, or achievement, success, all this different stuff?4:20
  50. We have to figure out what it is to make these decisions so we know what our soul is made of so that we don't go selling it to some4:26
  51. cause.4:32
  52. We don't give a shit about.4:33
  53. And then the next step is our experiences.4:35
  54. We have, all of us have these experiences.4:38
  55. We learn things every day, every minute about what we love, what we hate, what we're good at, what we're terrible at.4:40
  56. And if we don't spend time paying attention to that and assimilating that, that learning and applying it to the rest of our life, it's all for nothing.4:46
  57. It's like every week, actually every day, every week, every month, every year, I spend some time just reflecting on what went right, what went wrong, and what do I4:53
  58. want to repeat, what can I apply more to my life?5:00
  59. And even more so than that, as you see people, especially today, who inspire you, who are doing things where you say, oh God, what Jeff is doing, I want5:02
  60. to be like him.5:09
  61. Why are you saying that?5:11
  62. Open up a journal, write down what it is about them that inspires you.5:11
  63. It's not going to be everything about their life, but whatever it is, take note of that.5:14
  64. Because over time, we have this repository of things that we can use to apply to our life and have a more passionate existence and make a better impact.5:18
  65. Because when we start to do, put these things together, we can then define what it is success actually means to us.5:26
  66. And without these different parts of the compass, it's impossible.5:32
  67. We end up in this situation, we have that scripted life that everyone seems to be living, going up this ladder to nowhere.5:35
  68. It's kind of like in Wall Street too, if anyone saw that, the peon employee asked the big Wall Street banker CEO, hey man, what's your number?5:41
  69. Everyone's got a number, well if they make this amount of money, they'll leave it all.5:49
  70. He says, oh, simple, more.5:52
  71. He just smiles.5:56
  72. And it's the sad state of most of the people that haven't spent time understanding what actually matters to them.5:57
  73. We keep reaching for something that doesn't mean anything to us, but we're doing it because everyone said we're supposed to.6:01
  74. But once we have this framework together, we can start to identify the things that make us come alive.6:06
  75. Before this, a passion could come and hit you in the face, or maybe in your possible life work, and you might throw it to the side because you don't6:11
  76. have a way of identifying it.6:17
  77. But once you do, you can see something that's congruent with my strengths, my values, who I am as a person.6:19
  78. So I'm going to grab a hold of this, I'm going to do something with it, and I'm going to pursue it and try and make an impact with it.6:25
  79. And Liv Your Legend and the movement we built wouldn't exist if I didn't have this compass to identify, wow, this is something I want to pursue and make a6:31
  80. difference with.6:38
  81. So if we don't know what we're looking for, we're never going to find it.6:39
  82. But once we have this framework, this compass, then we can move on to what's next.6:42
  83. And that's not me up there.6:47
  84. But doing the impossible and pushing our limits.6:49
  85. Because there's two reasons why people don't do things.6:51
  86. One is because they tell themselves they can't do them, or the other is people around them tell them they can't do them.6:54
  87. Either way, we start to believe it, and either we give up or we never start in the first place.6:58
  88. The thing is, everything was impossible until somebody did it.7:02
  89. Every invention, every new thing in the world, people thought were crazy at first.7:05
  90. Roger Bannister in the four minute mile, it was a physical impossibility to break the four minute mile in a foot race.7:09
  91. And so Roger Bannister stood up and did it.7:15
  92. And then what happened?7:17
  93. Two months later, like 16 people broke the four minute mile.7:17
  94. The things that we have in our head that we think are impossible, often just milestones waiting to be accomplished.7:21
  95. And we can push those limits a bit.7:26
  96. And I think this starts with probably your physical body and physical fitness more than anything.7:27
  97. Because we can control that.7:31
  98. You know, if you show yourself, you don't think you can run a mile.7:33
  99. You show yourself you can run a mile or two, or even like a marathon or lose five pounds, whatever it is, you realize that can be transferred, that confidence,7:34
  100. compounds can be transferred into the rest of your world.7:42
  101. And I've actually gotten into the habit of this a little bit with my friends.7:45
  102. We had this little group, we kind of go on a physical adventures.7:48
  103. And recently I found myself in a kind of precarious spot.7:51
  104. I'm terrified of deep dark blue water.7:55
  105. I don't know if anyone's ever had that same fear ever since they watched Jaws one, two, three and four, like six times when I was a kid.7:57
  106. But anything above here, if it's murky, I can already feel it like right now.8:03
  107. I swear there's something in there.8:08
  108. Even it's Lake Tahoe, it's fresh water, totally unfounded fear, ridiculous, but it's there.8:10
  109. Anyway, three years ago, I find myself on this tugboat right down here in the San Francisco Bay.8:14
  110. It's a rainy, stormy, windy day.8:18
  111. And people are getting sick on the boat and I'm sitting there wearing a wetsuit.8:20
  112. And I'm looking out the window and pure terror and thinking I'm about to swim to my death.8:24
  113. I'm going to try and swim across the Golden Gate.8:29
  114. And my guess is some people in this room might have done that before.8:32
  115. And I'm sitting there and my buddy Jonathan would talk me into it.8:35
  116. He comes up to me and he could see the state I was in.8:38
  117. He comes up and says, Scott, hey man, he's like, what's the worst that can happen?8:40
  118. He's like, you're wearing a wetsuit, you're not going to sink.8:43
  119. He's like, and if you can't make it, just hop in one of the 20 kayaks.8:45
  120. Plus if there's a shark attack, why are they going to pick you over the 80 people that are in the water?8:48
  121. So thanks, that helps.8:52
  122. He's like, no, but really, just have fun with this.8:53
  123. He's like, good luck.8:55
  124. And he dives in, swims off.8:55
  125. Okay, it turns out the pep talk totally worked.8:58
  126. I just felt this total feeling of calm.9:00
  127. And I think it was because Jonathan was 13 years old.9:03
  128. And of the 80 people swimming that day, 65 of them between the ages of 9 and 13.9:08
  129. Think for a second how you would have approached your world differently.9:14
  130. But 9 years old, you found out you could swim a mile and a half in 56 degree water from Aguachalza, San Francisco.9:16
  131. What would you have said yes to?9:23
  132. What would you have not given up on?9:24
  133. What would you have tried?9:25
  134. You know, as I'm finishing this swim, I get to a aquatic park and I'm getting out of the water and of course half the kids already finished.9:27
  135. So they're cheering me on and they're all excited.9:32
  136. And I got a total popsicle head of anyone's ever swam in the bay.9:35
  137. And I'm trying to just thaw my face out.9:38
  138. I'm watching people finish.9:40
  139. And I see this one kid, something didn't look right.9:42
  140. He's just flailing like this.9:45
  141. And he's barely able to sip some air before he slammed his head back down.9:46
  142. And I noticed other parents were watching too.9:50
  143. And I swear they were thinking the same thing I was.9:52
  144. This is why you don't let 9 year old swim from Alcatraz.9:54
  145. And I mean, this was not fatigue.9:58
  146. And all of a sudden two parents run up, they grab him, and they put him on their shoulders and they're dragging him.10:00
  147. He's just dragging like this.10:04
  148. And I mean, totally limp.10:06
  149. And then all of a sudden they walk a few more feet and they plop him down in his wheelchair.10:08
  150. And he puts his fists up in the most insane show of victory I've ever seen.10:12
  151. I can still feel the warmth and the energy on this guy when he made this accomplishment.10:16
  152. I think I had seen him earlier that day in his wheelchair.10:20
  153. I had no idea he was going to swim.10:23
  154. I mean, where is he going to be in 20 years?10:25
  155. How many people told him he couldn't do that, that he would die if he tried that?10:28
  156. You prove people wrong, you prove yourself wrong, that you can make these little incremental pushes of what you believe is possible for yourself.10:31
  157. You don't have to be the fastest marathon in the world, just your own impossibilities to accomplish those.10:37
  158. And it starts with little bitty steps.10:41
  159. And the best way to do this is to surround yourself with passionate people.10:44
  160. The fastest way to do things you don't think can be done is to surround yourself with people already doing them.10:49
  161. There's this quote by Jim Rohn.10:53
  162. And it says, you are the average of the five people you spend most time with.10:56
  163. And there is no bigger life hack in the history of the world from getting where you are today to where you want to be.11:00
  164. Then the people you choose to put in your corner, they change everything.11:06
  165. And it's a proven fact.11:10
  166. In 1898, Norman Triplett did this study with a bunch of cyclists.11:12
  167. And you would measure their times around a track in a group and also individually.11:16
  168. And he found that every time the cyclist in a group would cycle faster.11:20
  169. And it's been repeated on all kinds of walks of life since then.11:23
  170. And it proves the same thing over and over again, that the people around you matter.11:26
  171. And the environment is everything.11:29
  172. But it's on you to control it because it can go both ways.11:31
  173. With these 80 % of people who don't like the work they do, that means most people around us, not in this room, but around everywhere else, are encouraging complacency11:33
  174. and keeping us from pursuing the things that matter to us.11:40
  175. So we have to manage those surroundings.11:43
  176. I found myself in this situation, a personal example maybe a year ago, a couple years ago, has anyone ever had a hobby or a passion they pour their heart11:45
  177. and soul into?11:55
  178. Unbelievable amount of time.11:56
  179. And they so badly want to call it a business.11:58
  180. But no one's paying attention and it doesn't make a dime.12:00
  181. Okay, I was there for four years trying to build this Live Your Legend movement to help people do work that they generally cared about and inspired them.12:04
  182. I was doing all I could and there were only really three people paying attention.12:11
  183. And they're all right there.12:15
  184. My mother, father, and my wife, Chelsea.12:16
  185. Thank you guys for the support.12:18
  186. But I, and this is how badly I wanted to, it grew by 0 % for four years.12:19
  187. And I was about to shut it down.12:26
  188. And right about then, I met, I moved to San Francisco and started to meet some pretty interesting people that had these crazy lifestyles of adventure of businesses and websites12:28
  189. and blogs that surrounded their passions and helped people in a meaningful way.12:37
  190. One of my friends, now he has a family of eight and he supports his whole family with a blog that he writes for twice a week.12:41
  191. They just come back from a month in Europe, all of them together.12:49
  192. This has blew my mind.12:51
  193. It's like, how does this even exist?12:52
  194. And I got unbelievably inspired by seeing this.12:54
  195. And instead of shutting it down, I decided, let's take it seriously.12:57
  196. I did everything I could to spend my time around, like every waking hour possible, trying to hang out with, hanging out and having beers and workouts, whatever it was.13:00
  197. And after four years of zero growth, within six months of hanging around these people, the community at Libby and Legend grew by ten times.13:08
  198. In another 12 months, it grew by 160 times.13:15
  199. And today, over 30 ,000 people from 158 countries use our career and connection tools on a monthly basis.13:19
  200. And those people have made up that community of passionate folks who inspire that possibility that I dreamed of for Libby and Legend so many years back.13:24
  201. The people change everything.13:34
  202. And this is why, you ask what was going on?13:36
  203. Well, for four years, I knew nobody in this space.13:39
  204. And I didn't even know it existed, that people could do this stuff and you could have movements like this.13:42
  205. And then all of a sudden, I'm over here in San Francisco and everyone around me is doing it.13:46
  206. It became normal.13:50
  207. So my thinking went from how could I possibly do this to how could I possibly not?13:51
  208. And right then, when that happens, that switch goes on in your head.13:57
  209. It ripples across your whole world.14:00
  210. And without even trying, your standards go from here to here.14:02
  211. You don't need to change your goals or anything.14:05
  212. You just need to change your surroundings.14:06
  213. That's it.14:08
  214. And that's why I love being around this whole group of people.14:09
  215. Why I go to every TED event I can and watch them on my iPad on the way to work, whatever it is, because this is the group of people14:13
  216. that inspires possibility.14:18
  217. We have a whole day to spend together and plenty more.14:20
  218. Some things up in terms of these three pillars.14:24
  219. They all have one thing in common, more than anything else.14:28
  220. They're 100 % in our control.14:31
  221. No one can tell you you can't learn about yourself.14:34
  222. No one can tell you you can't push your limits and learn your own impossible and push that.14:37
  223. No one can tell you you can't surround yourself with inspiring people or get away from the people who bring you down.14:41
  224. You can't control a recession.14:46
  225. You can't control getting fired or getting a car accident.14:48
  226. Most things are totally out of our hands.14:51
  227. These three things are totally on us.14:53
  228. And they can change our whole world if we decide to do something about it.14:57
  229. The thing is it's starting to happen on a widespread level.15:02
  230. I just read in Forbes, the US government reported for the first time in a month where more people had quit their jobs than had been laid off.15:05
  231. And they thought this was an anomaly, but then it's happened three months straight.15:13
  232. In a time where people claim it's kind of a tough environment, people are pretty much giving a middle finger to this scripted life.15:16
  233. The things that people say you're supposed to do in exchange for things that matter to them and do the things that inspire them.15:21
  234. And the thing is, people are waking up to this possibility that really the only thing that limits the possibility now is imagination.15:27
  235. That's not a cliche anymore.15:36
  236. Like, I don't care what it is that you're into, what passion, what hobby.15:37
  237. If you're into knitting, you can find someone who is killing it knitting.15:41
  238. And you can learn from them.15:44
  239. It's wild.15:46
  240. And that's what this whole day is about, to learn from the folks speaking and what we profile these people and live your legend every day.15:47
  241. Because it shows people, when ordinary people are doing the extraordinary, when you can be around that, it becomes normal.15:54
  242. And this isn't about being, you know, Gandhi or Steve Jobs doing something crazy.16:00
  243. It's just about doing something that matters to you and makes an impact that only you can make.16:04
  244. As we speak of Gandhi, he was a recovering lawyer.16:10
  245. As I've heard the term.16:14
  246. And he was called to a greater cause.16:16
  247. Something that mattered to him, he could not do.16:17
  248. And he has this quote that I absolutely live by.16:20
  249. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.16:22
  250. Everything was impossible until somebody did it.16:28
  251. You can either hang around the people who tell you it can't be done until you're stupid for trying, or surround yourself with the people who inspire possibility.16:31
  252. The people who were in this room.16:39
  253. Because I see it as our responsibility to show the world that what's seen as impossible can become that new normal.16:42
  254. And that's already starting to happen.16:50
  255. First to do the things that inspire us, so we can inspire other people to do the things that inspire them.16:52
  256. But we can't find that unless we know what we're looking for.16:58
  257. We have to do our work on ourself, be intentional about that, and make those discoveries.17:03
  258. Because I imagine a world where 80 % of people love the work they do.17:08
  259. What would that look like?17:11
  260. What would the innovation be like?17:13
  261. How would you treat the people around you?17:14
  262. Things would start to change.17:16
  263. And as we finish up, I have just one question to ask you guys, and I think it's the only question that matters.17:19
  264. It's what is the work you can't not do?17:25
  265. Discover that, live it, not just for you, but for everybody around you.17:29
  266. Because that is what starts to change the world.17:35
  267. What is the work you can't not do?17:38
  268. Thank you guys.17:41

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