Simon Sinek and a guest discuss how living without purpose harms not just you but those around you. Purposeless leadership raises cortisol levels, weakening immune systems and increasing susceptibility to cancer. Behavior spreads like contagion.
I had an AMA in class ask me anything and a student raised his hand and he said, do you ever get tired of teaching this purpose stuff when you know in the end we're all going to die? And I basically said to him, look, I think we have a moral choice. We can be nihilists or we can be optimists because how we act is contagious. And I don't want to give anybody the disease that kills your soul. When we don't live by our purpose, we don't just kill our own soul, we kill the souls of everyone around us. That's how strongly I feel about it.
Well, I mean the science backs you up by the way. When people lead without a sense of purpose or cause, it creates stress in the system, it creates stress in the people around them. The feeling of stress is cortisol. And when we have a lot of cortisol on a stress in our bodies, it actually weakens our immune systems and actually does make us more susceptible to things like cancer. And so yes, being short termist and selfish and lack of purpose can actually kill people around you. Yes, true.
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