Chad Silverstein explores how to find your purpose by asking why repeatedly until you uncover what truly drives you. The conversation covers defining your life statement and understanding the builder's journey as a framework for discovering deeper motivations.
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You know, it's a funny thing about building a core.
They're all connected.
All the pieces to the core are connected. The whip, the three Ps. You know, we're talking about purpose today.
And, you know, just like Chet says.
In the book, the passion, it fuels your purpose.
You gotta love what you do, otherwise you're not gonna sustain, you're gonna loathe.
It, and you're not gonna.
You're not gonna be able to sustain.
That passion over time towards a purpose that you're in love with if you're not in love with it. And I think being able to get clear on what your core purposes are is going to be really important.
But as you get through your builder's journey, writing out an opus, your big.
Dream in life, and then getting a.
Defining statement of your life, figuring out what lights you up, what gets you.
Out of bed every day, what's that.
Defining statement that really just jacks you up? It just, it gives you that fuel.
That even when you don't have the.
Passion, it's still there.
Because there are times where our emotions get the best of us and we have hard stuff going on in our life. And you may not feel so passionate about certain things that you love.
And when you have a really clear, laser focused aim and you have purpose in your life, and there's a good why behind that, that's so strong, that.
Will sustain, that will help carry you through the times where maybe you're not feeling so passionate about whatever it is.
That you might have to do today. And you got to start with why.
So just keep asking yourself why. Whenever I used to coach people, I'd always ask them why three times? Or I'd make someone in my office.
Send me, you know, what they're thinking and give me good three good whys.
Because usually the first one isn't so great. The second one, they didn't really think of that much. But the third one, usually they have to really dig deep to. To give you a good why. And that's usually where, again, the magic happens.
And I think if you're going to.
Have a purpose, you better have a really strong why behind that.
If you haven't seen Simon Sinek's, you.
Know, start with why, read his book, watch the YouTube clip.
There's real power, and it's hard to deny it. If you start with the what and the how, you're going backwards. So.
Start rinsing your purpose for your opus. Get a real clear, you know, vision.
For, you know, what you want to aim at and why and share that and get some feedback and keep rinsing.
