Shadowing Practice: Why Are We Friends? | Simon Sinek - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You know, going through the process of a why discovery, some people do it young, some people do it middle age, some people do it at the end.
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I mean, like, my hope is that everyone goes through it.
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I can tell you from personal experience, it is a profound, rewarding, and inspiring experience to find out who you are, to find out what your why is.
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And you live your best life.
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And you live your best life.
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And I have been operating at a higher sense of purpose since my why discovery.
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Now, I can tell you a fun way to do it.
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There's many ways to do it.
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I've written about it.
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We help people find it.
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But I can tell you a fun way to do it.
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It's called the friend's exercise.
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Find a friend you love and who loves you.
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The kind of friend who, if you called them at 3 o 'clock in the morning, you'd know they'd be there for you, and you would be there for them.
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Do not do this with a spouse.
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Do not do this with a sibling.
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Do not do this with a parent.
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Those relationships are too close.
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Do it with the best friend.
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And simply ask them this question.
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Why are we friends?
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And they're going to look at you like you're crazy.
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because the part of the brain that controls language doesn't control feelings, right?
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Which is why it's hard to put our feelings into words.
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And so they will struggle.
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It's not because they don't know, it's just that the words are not available.
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And they'll hem in the hall.
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And then, weirdly, you actually stop asking the question why.
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You start asking the question what.
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You say, come on, what specifically is it about me that I know you would be there for me no matter what?
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And they'll start describing you.
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They'll start saying things like, well, I trust you
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and I like you and you're funny you have to play devil's advocate
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that's just the definition of a friend you have
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that with lots of people what specifically is about me
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that I know you'd be there for me no matter what don't let anybody help them it's going to be torturous
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and eventually they'll give up eventually they'll give up and the friendship will end to find someone else exactly
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Eventually they'll give up and they'll stop trying to describe you and they'll start describing themselves.
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And what my friend said to me is, Simon, I don't know.
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All I know is that I can sit in a room with you.
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I don't even have to talk to you.
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And I feel inspired.
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And I got goosebumps.
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In fact, I'm getting them right now.
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Because what they told me was the value I have in their life.
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And the value I have in their life is the thing that I give to the world.
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I did this with multiple friends.
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They said very similar, if not the exact same things, because that is my value to them in their lives it's not something
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that everybody wants which is why we're not friends with everybody
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and so if you do this with your friends you will come very close
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and like I said you want to get to the point where they describe themselves
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and you're the one
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that has the weird emotional reaction you'll have goosebumps you'll well
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up with tears whatever it is it's it's a fun it's a fun exercise
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