Ashish Kothari describes finding his why when three things aligned: who he is, how his work helps others, and realizing how little most people know. Once he had it, external doubt stopped mattering.
Here's what shifted for me that week as these three things came into alignment. Who I am, how helpful this work can be. Not just me, but to everybody else, and how little people know about it. When those three things came together for me, that alignment, I found my calling. Now we say it wasn't my courage. I discovered my calling. Those who have a why can survive. Anyhow. My pre launch period, there was no why. It was just wanting to change what I wanted. But like the moment something didn't work, I went back to yeah, but this work works. Once I found my why, it didn't matter whether people believed it or not. It didn't matter whether firm supported it or not. I was going to speak my truth. I was going to learn as much as I could, and this is what I was going to do.
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
