Jay Shetty talks with Lewis Howes about finding your purpose. Shetty shares his own journey to discovering what drives him, and explains why understanding your passions and pains matters.
I was reading Saleeh Nishmal's book called Exponential Organizations. And in this book, he talks about something called an mtp, a massive transformational purpose. And he says that every major person organization in the world has an mtp. So an MTP has to be aspirational, it has to be massive, and it has to be service and purpose based. So Google's is organizing the world's information. Notice it doesn't say we're an SEO company. Notice it doesn't say we do Google Ads. They're organizing the world's information. That's how big they're dreaming. And when you're organizing the world's information, you can do driverless cars, you can do Google Glass, you can sell Google Ads, whatever it is. And so Ted's is ideas worth spreading. That's what they are. That's what they're about. So Jay Shetty is making wisdom go viral. That's what I'm dedicated to.
So when did you discover it? Because it wasn't when you were. It wasn't when you were 21. In college.
I say I was 30, probably two, three years ago. I'm 32 now, so I'd say, like, two, three years ago is when I discovered.
So 30 years old is when you discovered your purpose.
Correct.
So what was your purpose before that?
My purpose before that was finding my purpose. Like, it's like that process of. Just like my purpose before that was 14 years. So I've been online for four years. I've spent 10 years offline talking about the same stuff, sharing the same messages in talks, in universities, in small seminars, in coaching and mentoring. Like, I've been doing the same thing for 14 years. But I didn't realize it was my purpose until very recently. But I just did what I enjoyed and naturally tried to get better at it.
So if we don't know what our purpose is and we're working towards finding our purpose, it's okay.
That's actually where you're gonna spend most of your life.
Discovering what your purpose.
Totally. And that's the best bit, because I.
Think a lot of people are like, well, I don't know what my purpose is.
Totally. This is. How do I find it? The pressure of finding your purpose is crazy. Will stop you from finding your purpose. Literally, the pressure is so heavy. And that's why it's not about finding that. It's just starting with the basics. What am I good at? And I talk about it, and I break down Dharma in here, and I talk about, what are your passion what is your expertise? What is your compassion? Because that's really important. What is your compassion for the world? Like, what problem do you want to solve? I Often people will say, there's so many things I could do. There's so many things I'm like, my question is not what causes you the greatest joy? Sometimes my question is, what is what causes you the greatest pain?
Make that your purpose.
Make that your purpose. If you don't know what your joy is, you definitely know what your pain is. What do you not like in the world? What do you not like? And so for me, go serve that thing 100%. So for me, the greatest pain I see in the world is people not reaching their potential. That causes me more pain because I believe that there is someone out there who is stacking shelves who has the cure to cancer. There is someone out there or talented singer who's a talented singer. There is someone out there who's not living to their potential. And I think we're better people, we're better partners, and we're better parents when we live to our potential.
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