Jacqueline Novogratz shares three tips for people wanting to make bigger impact. Her first: be interested rather than interesting, focusing on genuine curiosity about others instead of self-promotion. She gives the advice while dealing with a house fire in the background.
What's a last tip or insight or bit of inspiration that you would share for somebody that seeks to either advance or aspires to begin making a bigger difference and in the way only they can make it?
Thanks. Thanks, Scott. And yes, we actually had a fire in my house today, and which is why I keep doing this, because it's all the windows are open and the firemen are still downstairs. So apologies again. I'm gonna very quickly say 3. The one is be interested rather than interesting. Too often we focus on, you know, who am I here rather than who are you.
Mm-hmm.
Two, and it follows, is just start and let the work teach you that Purpose doesn't find people who are waiting on the sidelines trying to figure out their purpose. When you see something that interests you, follow the thread of your curiosity, take one step, and that step will lead you to the next step that you need to take. And the third, which is not for people who are just starting out, but more for people like me. I was recently with one of the great social entrepreneurs of the world, just a couple of years before he died. Fazal Abed, who founded this extraordinary organization called BRAC in Bangladesh. And I said, "Sir Abed, if you had to do one thing differently, what would it be?" And he said, "I would have gone faster, earlier. Everyone wants to slow you down. Don't let them do it." And I think about that all the time.
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