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Thank you Zach for tossing me down the Simon Sinek rabbit hole. I'm currently on my journey of figuring out my why. I find you're realization interesting. Curiosity is fantastic but I think you are just at the tip of the iceberg with your why. Besides, we should all be curious. You are curious by the vary virtue of thinking about your why. Let's get into the layers of that ole onion. I'm very curious of where my mind has wandered to this past week and look forward to discovering my why as well. Cheers

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So great to hear Dan that you've dived into the Simon Sinek philosophy and it's got you started on discovering your why! You are quite right about curiosity being the tip of the iceberg of my why, or maybe it would be more accurate to say it's the foundation of the pyramid. Like you said, "we SHOULD all be curious." I emphasize "SHOULD" because unfortunately not all of us are curious. Many people have lost their curiosity. So the question for me and the focus of my why is how do we help people rekindle their curiosity? Because I believe every person's personal curiosity will lead them to their passions and purpose in life and if we all are following our passions and purpose then the world will become a more wonderful place.

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Years ago I had a friend who set limits for herself. She wanted to have competed in an Iron Man race by the age of 30 and she wanted to have started a new career by 35. She did neither and felt embarrassed for publicly declaring her aspirations . I always wondered why she felt the need to set herself up with personal challenges. Life throws enough challenges at you and success is never guaranteed but taking it on is the key to a sense of satisfaction.

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If you dive deeper into Simon Sinek, he talks about these type of "goals", which are completely fine but they are finite. What happens if your friend had competed in an Iron Man race by the age of 30? Keep adding years? The overall life "goal" should be a utopian vision (at least according to Simon). A vast, almost ridiculous vision. As in "every human being living until 120 years old"

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You've made a solid point Dan! It might be that the friend didn't accomplish her goals because she was focused on the "What" of the goals and not the "Why". Sounds like you have dived even deeper into Simon Sinek than I have. I haven't read or watched any of his latest stuff about the Infinite Game yet.

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Certainly life throws challenges at you and satisfaction comes from taking it on. At the same time, if anyone told me they wanted to compete in an Iron Man or start a new career I would cheer them on because a world where no one ran in an Iron Man or a world where everyone is stuck in a career they don't like just seems like a sad world to me.

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My why? Why not? I am energy and enthusiasm and have helped to set a thousand dreams to sail. So have you my friend, more than you can know. What I do and who I am are not necessarily the same... I am not where I hoped to be either, but I am nowhere I wish I wasn't, and that's something.

Looking forward to our next communication. See ya in the movies.

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ah you know I'm a sucker for poetry and dreams. The way I like to look at it is I may not be where I want to be but I believe I am where I need to be right now.

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