Take Accountability For Your Actions - Simon Sinek BEST Motivational Video Ever!

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all the credit in the world for the things you do well, as long as you also take responsibility for the things you do wrong, it should be a balanced equation in the 18th century there was something that spread across Europe and eventually broke through into a miraculous f

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also known as the Black Plague of childbirth. Basically what was happening is that women were giving birth and dying within 48 hours of giving birth. This black death of childbirth was the devastation of Europe and became worse and worse and worse over the course of more than a century; in some hospitals, 70 percent of women who gave birth would die as a result of childbirth, but this It was the Renaissance, this was the time of empirical data and science. and we had discarded things like tradition and mysticism these were men of science these were doctors and these doctors and men of science wanted to study and try to find the reason for this black death of childbirth and that is why they got to work studying and they would They studied the bodies of women who had died and in the morning they performed autopsies and then in the afternoon they went to give birth and finished their rounds and it was not until the mid-19th century that Dr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes's father The Judge of the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes noticed that all these doctors doing autopsies in the morning weren't washing their hands before delivering babies in the afternoon and he pointed it out and said, guys, you're the problem. and they ignored it. and he called it crazy for 30 years until finally someone realized that if they just washed their hands it would go away and that's exactly what happened when they started sterilizing their instruments and washing their hands, the black death of the infant bed disappeared . My point is the lesson here. Sometimes you are the problem, take responsibility for

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, you can take all the credit in the world for the things you do right, as long as you also take responsibility for the things you do wrong, it should be a balanced equation.

If you understand it one way and not another, you can take credit when you also take responsibility. Nelson Mandela is a particularly special case study in the world of leadership because he is universally considered a great leader. In reality, he was the son of a tribal chief and one day he was asked how you learned to be a great leader and he replied that he would go with his father to tribal meetings and he remembers two things when his father met with other Elders: one, he always They sat in a circle and two. your father was always the last to speak they will tell you your whole life that you need to learn to listen I would say you need to learn to be the last to speak I see it in boardrooms

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y day of the week even people who consider themselves, Good leaders who can actually be decent leaders will walk into a room and say, here's the problem, here's what I think, but I'm interested in your opinion, let's walk around the room, it's too late, the ability to keep your thoughts to yourself. opinions for himself until everyone has them.

The spoken word does two things: one, it gives everyone else the feeling that they have been heard, it gives everyone else the ability to feel like they have contributed, and two, you get the benefit of hearing what everyone else has to say. think before you give your opinion, the skill is really to keep your opinions to yourself if you agree with someone don't nod your head yes if you don't agree with someone I don't know just sit there, take in everything and the only thing you can To do is to ask questions so you can understand what they want to say and why they have the opinion they have.

You must understand where they speak from, why they have the opinion they have, not just what they say, and in the end you will have your turn. It sounds easy. It is not so. A friend of mine. and I went running in Central Park, the road runners organization, on the weekends they organize races and it is very common that at the end of the race they have a sponsor who will give something away, apples, bagels or something like that. and on this particular day when we got to the end of the race there were some free bagels and they had picnic tables set up and on one side was a group of volunteers, on the table were boxes of bagels and on the other side was a long line of runners waiting to get their free bagel so I said to my friend let's go get a bagel and he looked at me and said oh the line is too long and I said free bagel and he said I don't want to wait in the line and I was like a free bagel and he said no, it's too long and that's when I realized that there are two ways of seeing the world: some people see what they want and others see what prevents them from getting what what do they want.

I could only see the bagels, I could only see the line, all the great leaders, everyone from Martin Luther King to Steve Jobs, every one of them, those with the ability to inspire, will think, act and communicate in exactly the same way and it's the complete opposite of the rest of us where the rest of us start with what we do these great leaders those with the ability to inspire and lead big changes they all always start with why they do what they do every organization on the planet, even our own careers always operate on three levels what we do how we do it and why we do it what we do with the products we make the services we offer the things we sell How we do it are those, whether you call it your unique selling proposition or your patented process or whatever you want to call it, are the things that you believe make you different or special or make you stand out from the crowd, but it is this concept of why we do what we do, this cause of purpose or belief is what gives us It drives each of us why the company exists.

First of all, we don't need another one of whatever it is you sell. You know there is a lot, but why do we need you? and it's not because of how you do it differently or what you do. There is something deeper there, was the reason The company was formed when organizations began to ask themselves why the response they will get from people who believe what they believe will be visceral, it will be deeply personal and in the emotional part of the brain it will be difficult to people explain why they are so attracted. to Southwest Airlines or Harley Davidson or Apple they will talk oh, it's the design, it's the quality, it's the service, but it's actually deeper than that, it's in the part of the brain that controls behavior, but not language, the

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I don't know, I just love it, but the reality is that it's actually one of the things that helps define who they are. Apple is able to inspire loyalty among customers, employees, and shareholders because the way they see themselves is different from the way most other computer companies see themselves. Computer companies define themselves by what they do, they make computer shooters and everything they try to do is in an effort to improve that, add more RAM, add more speed, make it blue. Apple defines themselves by the reason they exist to challenge the status quo, you know, the power of the individual thinks differently and everything they say and everything they do is promote that idea, so in the mid 1980s a theologian named James Carsey wrote this little book called finite and infinite. games in which you define these two types of games finite games in which the players know fixed rules and agreed objectives there is always a beginning, a middle and an end, the objective is to win the game and then there are infinite games, infinite games are defined as known and unknown players you don't necessarily know who all the other players are the rules can be changed you can play however you want and the goal is to perpetuate the game to stay in the game as long as possible we are players in multiple infinite games every day of our Lives there is no such thing as being the winner in your marriage there is no such thing as winning global politics and there is definitely no such thing as winning business finite mindset that is all it is about this transaction this list an infinite mindset is I can win or lose this game I can win or lose this transaction and there will be another and another and another and another and the goal is not to win this one the goal is to be better and better and better and better let me give you is a real life example that sheds some light what I'm talking about I spoke at an Education Summit AT Microsoft I also spoke at an Education Summit AT Apple At the Microsoft Summit the vast majority of executives spent the vast majority of their presentations Talking about how to beat Apple at the Microsoft Summit Apple, 100 percent of executives spent 100 percent of their presentations talking about how to help teachers teach and how to help students learn.

One was obsessed with where they were going and the other was obsessed with their competition at the end of my talk at Microsoft they gave me a gift they gave me the new Zune when this was Microsoft's answer to the iPod and this little piece of technology was absolutely amazing it was beautifully designed the user interface was intuitive and very simple to use it was really brilliant I have to say, at the end of my Apple talk I was sharing a taxi with a senior Apple executive and decided to stir the pot. I could not avoid it.

I told him he said: you know Microsoft gave me their new Zune and it's much better than your iPod Touch, to which he said: I have no doubts and the conversation ended because the infinite player understands that sometimes your competitor has the

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product and sometimes Sometimes you have the best. product and sometimes you are ahead and sometimes you are behind, but there is no such thing as best or first or beating the competition, there is only one head and one behind and the reality of an infinite game is that you are really only competing against yourself who The goal of each day is how we can become a better version of our own institution this year than last year.

How do we improve the quality of our culture? How do we improve the quality of the way we provide the service we claim to be? Providing how we improve ourselves, that's the whole point of being an infinite game because at the end of the day, we don't have the same metrics as everyone else and we're not even necessarily playing to the same ends as everyone else. We had the experience where one of our colleagues got a promotion and we got angry, we got angry, we got angry about someone else's success, think about that for a second, why couldn't we share the joy?

What is it about them that is revealed in For us, that is the problem. Comparison is the deadliest thing we can do to ourselves because we will always fall short. All it does is exaggerate all our insecurities. It's fun and exciting to try to beat our competitors, but we have to face our own weaknesses. Every day that is exhausting it is much easier to direct all that discomfort and anxiety we have about competitions and our weaknesses at others, but the problem is that if we become so obsessed with winning, sometimes we do things that are unethical, it's like being a runner in a race when we are obsessed with winning in a race we can trip the other runner we can trip the other competitor and yes we will win the race but we are still a slow runner and the problem is that in this infinite game there is another runner in another race and in another race and it never ends when we have competitors in the business we adopt this mentality of needing to win or beat them the problem is that this is not a finite game there is no such thing as beating a worthy rival it is another player in the game that is worthy of comparison that in some way reveals to you the weaknesses that you have that are opportunities for you to work to improve you can choose your own worthy rivals you can have many of them they can be entire companies, they can be individuals, they don't even have to be in your industry, but there are people that you respect, you don't have to like them, but you respect that they are better at things than you and that shows you where you are.

Opportunities to improve are and remember in the infinite game the only true competitors are yourself and if the game of an infinite mindset of playing with an infinite mindset is a game of constant improvement what better way to discover your weaknesses than those who are better than us. Faced with so many things organized for the infinite game, it takes courage because we are going to swim against the current in a very finite world and it is incredibly difficult to have the courage to face all the pressures in our lives that are telling us to stay finite to move beyond. from others to make as much money as possible this year to be the best to be number one in all these artificial rankings with arbitrary qualifications and arbitrary time frames.

You know the pressures on us are overwhelming from Wall. Whether it's our own egos or internal incentive structures or our bosses, whatever it is, the pressures are overwhelming for us to play the finite game and then how do we resist the massive external pressure? Courage and bravery is something that comes from the relationships you know are. external the absolute trust that someone will be there for you in a time of need is what gives us courage to be there for other peoplewhen they need it there are days when we are going to doubt ourselves there are days when we are going to get our butts beat there are days when the storms are going to come and we have to have people to say I got you back you need to do this we need you the The world needs this continues, which raises a very interesting question: what does it mean? live an infinite life clearly our lives are finite but life is infinite and we are simply the players in this infinite game and in all other infinite games, although we cannot choose the rules of the game, we can chooseif we want to play and we can choose how we want to play it in The Game of Life, however, we cannot choose if we want to play once you are born, you are a player, the only option we have.

Earning is how we want to play, we can choose to live our lives with a finite mindset, advance our own careers at the expense of others, try to outdo all our friends, make more money than anyone else we know, and accumulate so much power. as possible and when we die we leave it all behind or we can choose to live with a childlike mentality which is to commit to seeing those around us rise up to see that those around us have experiences that they cannot get anywhere else and not That is the goal of an infinite life: to leave this world in better condition than when we found it, to leave the companies we work for in better condition than when we started, to leave our families stronger and more capable than they could do without.

We, you know, that's not what it means to live an infinite life that we can literally live beyond our own lives.