Name: Without The Title, Who Are You? | Simon Sinek
Uploaded: 2026-02-23T13:07:02.000Z
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If you look at most people's bios, and let's be honest, we write our own bios, right?

Modal verbs - A2

You can see how people define themselves.

Future simple

It'll say the title owner, operator, it'll say CEO, it'll say Oscar nominated actor, whatever it is.

And so we're talking about ourselves based on the position we hold or something we did 20 years ago, but

And I see this happen to a lot of people, usually more successful people, believe it or not, which is they completely intertwine their identities with their, with their jobs.

And if they stop doing their jobs, they retire, they move on, whatever it is, they have crazy identity crises.

There's a very high powered CEO that everybody here would know and definitely know the company.

And he left his job, it's his time to retire.

And he thought he was going to stay busy and all that.

And there was a big Hollywood party that he would get invited to every year and he didn't get an invitation this year.

And a friend of his was over and said, you got your invitation, right?

And the guy goes, yeah, of course I got my invitation.

He never could understand that they were never inviting him and they were inviting his title.

And so when he didn't have his title, he didn't have an identity.

And so I realized this years ago that I wanted to feel about myself, who I was.

So whenever you see me blurb a book or if you see my bio, it says optimist and author.

And so I will be an optimist till the day I die.

But the stuff I do will change throughout my life.

So I want to be defined by who I am, not what I do.