{"id":2742,"date":"2010-06-03T22:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T05:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2010-06-03T22:40:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T05:40:35","slug":"the-why-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/06\/03\/the-why-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The WHY of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve watched it three times now, trying to remember something I used to know so well: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action<\/a>, Simon Sinek<\/a>‘s fascinating TEDx<\/a> (Puget Sound) presentation.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I used to be into leadership as such, but I certainly used to know WHY I did things, and I felt passionate about them. Before I lost my mojo, people commented on my energy and enthusiasm, but lately I’ve just felt exhausted – and what’s missing is definitely the why<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sinek’s talk gives me a useful framework for a rethink. I’ve berated myself about not being able to find my theme or “statement,” find my definition of what<\/em> I want to do. But as Sinek<\/a> would point out, what<\/em> you want to do isn’t the driving factor: it’s why<\/em> you want to do it.<\/p>\n

(Re)-finding the why<\/em> of wanting to do anything is going to be a bit of a journey to the center of the earth (or rather, of Planet Me). I believe in adding value, but it feels like I’ve reached the end of the line here: whatever value I have to add isn’t valued where I happen to be.<\/p>\n

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A big hat-tip to Naomi Devine<\/a> without whose facebook link<\/a> I would have missed this presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve watched it three times now, trying to remember something I used to know so well: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action, Simon Sinek‘s fascinating TEDx (Puget Sound) presentation. It’s not that I used to be into leadership as such, but I certainly used to know WHY I did things, and I felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[15999],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-simon_sinek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}