Name: Dr. Robert Quinn: "How to Live a Purpose-Driven Life" | Talks at Google
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ROBERT QUINN: A couple of weeks ago I was in Barcelona.

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And we were just finishing a week in training executives

He's a psychiatrist who is deeply wedded to science.

He spends about half of his time with professionals

trying to make them more effective leaders.

He spends the other half of his time in villages and towns

I was listening to him tell some of his stories,

and I said, Alberto, what is your life purpose?

And he said, when you help people make their work sacred,

they come alive in every area of their life.

00:01:34,020 --> 00:01:38,899 It's a very striking thing to see a man of such commitment

to science and to theology and to service

00:01:50,450 --> 00:01:56,890 About 2006, I left the university for three years,

At the university, we have a set of [INAUDIBLE] organizations,

we asked what is an individual like at their best?

What is an organization like at their best?

Not what they're like normally, but in the way out

far side of that normal curve [INAUDIBLE]..

And that creates an entirely different way to see the world.

Those three years were one of the most meaningful periods

When I got back, my friend came to see me.

I thought it would go for two or three minutes.

Then he went away for a few minutes and he came back.

And he said, what you just told me defies economics.

Now, along the way, he decided to educate me.

And he said, I'm going to explain to you why this

It has to do with the principal-agent problem.

So I turned to him, an employee, and I said,

As long as I'm there to watch him, he keeps the contract.

And that's the very heart of microeconomics--

into the model, the entire organization transformed.

a principal, became an owner, became intrinsically motivated.

We've got to go interview CEOs of high-purpose companies.

Now, to me, it seemed to sort of make sense

But when we went out and did the interviews,

As we interviewed these CEOs, the shocking discovery to me

was that most of them, the majority of them,

00:05:18,730 --> 00:05:22,974 They had come up through economic, managerial training.

Every one of them got there through some kind

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