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Stephen's recent Discovery Ed Webinar
Links & Show Notes
- Simon Sinek’s TED Talk summary (02:15)
- “People don’t buy what they do, they buy why you do it.”
- Why start with WHY? (04:12)
- What happens when you start with why? (05:07)
- How you find your why… describing love (08:25)
- Look to the anthropology - map peaks and valleys in your life & why will emerge (08:56)
- Why lives in limbic brain, has no language
- Don’t put ‘I’m a teacher’ in your WHY (10:02)
- Take your ‘whats’ out of your ‘why’
- Richard Branson (11:30) - Infusing fun so that we positively impact people’s lives - put a splash of red in a mundane world of grey
- Collective efficacy
- Context vs. content (14:28)
- “Vision without execution is hallucination.” - Edison
- Clarity of Why, Discipline of How, Consistency of What
- Discipline of How (16:18)
- Stephen’s WHY: To connect with people in meaningful ways so that we connect with depth and live in a more fulfilled world
- Helping students find their why (19:40)
- Life experience & brain development are crucial
- Does your why change? (22:04)
- If you live in line with what you believe, the result is passion, if you live out of line with what you believe, the result is stress.
- Organizational ‘why’ vs. individual ‘why’ (23:08)
- “For what reason are you proud to be a part of this institution?”
- 2 ways to change a population: Evolution or Revolution (24:45)
- Nested Whys
- Simon Sinek’s Why: To inspire people to do the things that inspire them so that each of us can change the world for the better
- “We can each choose to be the leader we wish we had.”
- Consistency of What (26:08)
- Authenticity - we say & do what we actually believe
- What about when we’re not consistent with our why? (28:30)
- Ask for accountability
- Keep goal in our heads = 7-15% will accomplish
- Write goals down = 45% will accomplish
- Share goals with someone we care about = >80% will accomplish
- (Note: I couldn’t find where Stephen found these numbers, so don’t have a link, but tried to look around online and found that the jury is kind of out on whether or not and when it’s a good idea to share your goals, with whom, what kind of feedback to receive, etc. There are a lot of factors here that make goal-sharing for accountability a grey area.)
- Continue - Start - Stop
- Leaders Eat Last (31:08)
- “A whisper is a shout.”
- Inspiration & Clarity, then Trust
- Safety, Value, Belonging
- General George Flynn (34:18)
- Fulfillment > Happiness (36:14)
- Work-Life Balance & Flow state (36:48)
- Books that have shaped Stephen’s worldview (38:40)
- The Infinite Game: Game Theory & Simon’s new book (40:02)
- Takeaways (43:07)
- Ben’s skills video (44:25)
- “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is people who can come alive.” - Howard Thurman
- Michelle Obama
- Cal Newport - So Good They Can’t Ignore You
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