Name: How to Find Your Purpose | Robert Greene & Dr. Andrew Huberman
Uploaded: 2024-12-31T12:28:11.000Z
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Being a human being is not easy as opposed to an animal because we're born and nobody gives us like a direction.

Our parents might be a little bit, our college teachers, et cetera, mentors, but generally we're on our own and it's a very, very difficult process.

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You wake up in the morning and you don't really know what you can do.

It can be very confusing and very overwhelming.

When you find that sense of purpose, when you find what I call your life's task, everything has a direction.

It's not like you're just going down a single narrow pathway.

It's not like life becomes boring and it's just about discipline and solving problems.

It's actually the most exciting thing that can ever happen to you because you never have that lost feeling.

You wake up in the morning and you go, yeah, this is what I need to accomplish.

People come at you with all kinds of distractions and boring and irritating things.

It's just the most marvelous piece of internal radar that you can have.

I genuinely wish that everybody can find that kind of internal radar.

There's no instant formula because we're all about instant formulas.

It's difficult and I want you to know that so it's not like Robert can give me the answer in three minutes.

No, I can't, but there's a process involved.

You can follow a very singular process and the idea is you're talking about childhood.

The way I like to frame it is when you were born, you are a phenomenon.

Your DNA has never occurred in the history of the universe going back billions of years.

Your life experience with your parents and everything that you experienced in your early years going on up is unique.

To waste that is just the worst thing you can do in your life.

What the power is, is finding that uniqueness.

What makes you you and how you can mine that and how you can go deep into it and use that to create a career path.

And so I tell people when you're a child, when you're four or five or even younger, you have what the great psychologist Maslow called impulse voices, the little voices in your head that say, I love this.

You're very cued into who you are and what you like and what you don't like.

And these voices kind of direct you in certain ways, right?

And when you're very young, they direct you towards intellectual mental pursuits as well.

And there's a book I recommend for everybody.

It's Howard Gardner's Five Frames of Mind.

The idea is he talks about five forms of intelligence.

Our problem is we think of intelligence as mostly intellectual, but there are many forms of intelligence.

There's the intelligence that has to do with words.

There's abstract intelligence that has to do with patterns and mathematics.

There's kinetic intelligence that has to do with the body.

And the idea is your brain naturally veers towards one of them.

But generally one of them kind of dominates, right?

And it's like a grain in your brain that's going in a certain direction.

You want to go with that grain because that's where your power will lie.

So when you're young, if you go back and think about when you were four or five, you can maybe get a picture of some kind of direction or voice inside of you that was impelling you towards this.

I can remember when I was six years old, I was just obsessed with words, just the letters in words, almost like in this almost slightly schizophrenic way.

So I had a thing about words and language.

Some people, you know, Albert Einstein, when he was four years old, his father gave him a birthday gift of a compass.

And he was just mesmerized by this compass.

The idea that there are invisible forces out there in the cosmos moving this needle.

And he's obsessed with the idea of invisible forces.

Steve Jobs, when he was like seven or eight or maybe younger in Burlingame, California, his father, they passed by a store with technological devices in the window.

And he was just hypnotized by the design of those devices and the glass tubes and everything.

You know, Tiger Woods saw his father hitting golf balls in the garage, and he was just like screaming with joy.

You know, I could give you a million different examples of this.

Of course, these are people who are famous, obviously.

But what happens to you, and please cut me off if I'm going on too long.

What happens to you is you're seven, now you're getting older, and you're starting to not hear that voice anymore.

You're hearing the voice of your teachers telling you, you're not good at this field.

You know, you shouldn't be interested in these sports or anything.

Your parents are starting to tell you this is the career they want for you, or the direction they want you to go in, right?

You start hearing that more than your own voice, and as you get older, it gets worse and worse and worse.

Then when you're a teenager, it's all about what other people are doing, your peers, what's cool, what's not cool, you know?

So all of this noise enters your brain, and you can't hear that anymore.

And so you go to college, you kind of maybe choose a major that seems practical that your parents want you to go into.

Maybe you kind of wander around, you're not sure, and then you enter the work world without that inner radar that I'm talking about, and brother, you're lost, right?

And so you make a choice based on the need to make a lot of money.

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