How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig

On the last night of my 25th college reunion there was a party in a tent, there was dancing, music and noise, so much noise that many of us began to leave the tent so we could hear each other talk and catch up with our classmates. class. that we hadn't seen in over two decades while talking to my friends I made a surprising discovery 80% of them weren't happy with their lives I feel like I've wasted my

life

and I'm halfway there they said I I don't

know

what I'm talking about It's about my

life

now. I had the privilege of going to Yale and we were on a summer afternoon in the middle of the old Yale campus and the people I was talking to were privileged, highly educated and financially well-off. and positions of power and they had the first house and the second house and they had the first spouse and the second spouse and 80% of them were unhappy with their lives who was happy 20%?

Well, we had studied Renaissance literature and rhetoric and we were the theater people and the history geeks, we had studied classes for the pleasure of learning, not because we thought we were going to be directed to a specific job, we still got jobs, we lived our lives expansively with the ups and downs of life and we didn't. I didn't feel like we had wasted a single minute and as I talked to the 20%, the happiest 20% I discovered that each of them knew something about their life

purpose

because they knew five things who they were what they did who they did it for what they wanted or what those people needed and what they got out of it how they changed as a result sounds difficult it is not actually it is very simple in fact it is so simple you can learn

your

life

purpose

now you are going to

know

your

life purpose now in the next 5

minutes

Would you like to know your life purpose in the next 5

minutes

? yeah, can you talk a little louder because they're making a lot of noise in the store and there's just a dumb little microphone next to it?

My cheek listening to you. Would you like to know your next purpose? The purpose of your life in the next five minutes. Thank you. Actually, it won't even take five minutes. Can I share something else with you if you are like many of us? You have wondered and worried about your life purpose for a long time and there are books, magazines, workshops and seminars about it. In fact, Amazon lists these 151,925 books that address how you can learn your life purpose well. I know some people who have spent their entire lives trying to learn their life purpose and what they look like, we can all agree that an unexamined life is not worth living, but if all you are doing is examining, you are not living, so let's discover together the purpose of life right now, who you are what. you do it because of what those people want and need and how they change as a result, shall we? okay everyone on the count of five shout out your name 1 2 3 4 fabulous five that was the first just because that's what you are now what you do what you love to do you love writing cooking designing creating an IOS application writing code numbers speaking teaching what you love to do and if there are many things coming up for you, focus on asking yourself this one question, what is the one thing that right now you feel extremely qualified to teach other people?

Think about it in a word, wait, don't let go yet on the count of five, what do you want? do one two great, that's what you do now think about who you do it for imagine them in your mind get ready to say it on the count of five wait, don't let it go yet one 2 good, who you do it for, let's look a little louder for favor over the people in the store for whom you do it together thank you that's the spirit we need okay now what do those people want or need what do they want or need that you have to them I have come to you so that you can give them this, what they want or need in just one or two words, hold it, don't let go yet and on the count of five 1 2 3 4 5 fantastic, now this is the best. one how they change how they change or transform as a result of what you give them on the count of five how they change or transform as a result of what you give them 1 2 3 4 five great now let's put all this together in a kind of sentence , okay, okay, all together, stronger than the people in the store, who you are, what you do, who you do it, what they want or need it for, how they change as a result, fantastic, you've got it all.

I just did something that people who went to Yale couldn't figure out for 25 years. Congratulations, give yourselves a hand now. Why is that formulation so powerful? Because of all those five things you need to know to know what your life's purpose is, only two are covered. yourself, the other three are about other people, who they are, what they want or need and how they change as a result, that formulation forces you to look outside and at all the happiest people I met outside the store on that warm winter night. New Haven. They were looking outward, they weren't looking inward, they knew very clearly who they served, what those people needed and how those people changed as a result and you may have already intuited that the most successful people in any field always focus more on the people who serve that in how they serve themselves the happiest people strive to make other people happy and do things that make them feel well cared for and safe if you make other people happy life teaches us that we will be taken care of too Since everyone did so well, we have time for a little extra credit.

One of the hardest things that happens when you meet people for the first time is that they ask you this question. So what do you do and do you like it? For some of us, that's a really challenging question at some point, especially if you're in those moments where you're in between things or you feel vulnerable or it's undefined or what you seem to do is not what you actually do or what you do. Getting paid is not how you define yourself, so when people ask you this question, what do you do? and you also have this monologue monologue like why is he asking me and what do I do, it's because it's that transactional. thing where it's like he wants to know if he should really spend time talking to me or is it this other thing so he can tell me what he does because he's sure it's much better than what I do well, so when someone asks you that question this is what you do you just say the last thing you mentioned how what you do changes the people you do it for so for example you could say I give children amazing dreams if your life purpose is to write children's books so they can fall asleep at night so they can have wonderful dreams or you could say I help people look and feel better if the purpose of their life is I design clothing for men and women who need affordable options so they can look and feel better or you could Let's say I help people get great jobs in the world if your life's purpose is to empower entrepreneurs and creative people to take decisive action so they can get their best jobs in the world and then that little snippet you just What you say becomes your personal elevator speech and will always start the conversation because the person you were talking to has to ask you a question: How do you give kids big dreams?

How do you help people look and feel better? Can people really do their best work in the world and then? You can tell them and share your life's purpose and share how they can come to learn theirs too.