A short YouTube discussion (uploaded by Clegg) in which Simon Sinek and another speaker argue that the most effective route to personal change is helping others. They reference Alcoholics Anonymous’ 12-step program, emphasizing the 12th step—commitment to help another alcoholic—as central, and contrast typical 'self-help' questions with a focus on serving others.
The 12 step program. We all joke about the first step admitting you have a problem, but it's the 12th step.
That matters.
If an alcoholic masters all 11 steps and not the 12th, it's highly likely they'll drink again. If they master the 12th step, they're much more likely to overcome the disease. The 12th step is the commitment to help another alcoholic. It's service.
And this really.
Is the most powerful thing in the world, which is, it's not about us. It's about others.
You know, there's an entire section of.
The bookshop called self help.
There's no section.
In the bookshop called Help Others.
And it's not about how can I lose 10 pounds? How can I.
Find the job that I love?
How can I find the love of my life? You know? No, no. It's not how can I lose 10 pounds? It's how can I help somebody I.
Care about live a healthy lifestyle?
It's not how can I find the.
Job that I love?
It's how can I help somebody I care about find a lifetime of.
Joy in their work?
It's not how can I find true love, it's how can I help my friends settle down.
And and live the.
Life they want to live? And ironically.
If we set out to.
Help people solve.
The problems that we struggle with ourselves, that in turn is what teaches us the solutions.
