Short excerpt from a YouTube video "Discover Your Mojo" (featuring Simon Sinek) in which Sinek recounts losing passion for his chosen career, the identity crisis that followed, and how discovering the idea he calls the "Golden Circle" helped him rediscover purpose and regain his passion.
I had no passion for my career. Okay? This was a chosen career. Like, I started my own business in a category in a profession that I thought I wanted to spend the rest of my life in. And to wake up one morning with a superficially good life and didn't want to do it anymore. Right. It's kind of distressing because when we started, you know, so many of us intertwine our identities with our work, and if I don't like my work, then who am I? So I went through that, and it was the discovery of this little idea that I called the Golden Circle. We all know what we do. Some of us know how we do it, but very few of us know why we do what we do. And I realized I didn't know why I was doing what I was doing. And it was that crisis that was designed to do nothing more than help me find my own passion to get back my mojo that put me in a path that was unexpected.
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