Dave Evans

And his conclusion was that they don't value me.

I'm not valued.

These people don't understand what I can do.

And so I can't be here.

Well, this is really kind of why we wrote this most recent book.

I mean, we'd help people design a lot of lives and redesign a lot of careers, and they still kept coming back going, I did all that, and technically it worked, but it's still not as fulfilling as I was hoping it was going to be.

And we said, well, tell us what you mean by that.

And overwhelmingly, what fulfillment meant to people was, am I getting to be all that I can be?

And then we did some research and found out the reason almost everybody thinks that fulfillment is, you know, getting a chance to do everything you want to do or particularly everything you can do.

is because Abraham Maslow told you that's what you should want.

So we have the hierarchy of needs going back to his originating paper in 1943, which the NIH calls one of the stickiest ideas on the social sciences, where the apex of the human experience is self-actualization.

And self-actualization occurs when one becomes all that one can be.

And if I can pull that off, what will I get, according to Maslow, is I will get...

So self-actualize, be everything you can be, and you get fulfillment.

We know all of us contain more aliveness than your lifetime permits you to live out.

There's more than one life worth of living in you in there.

There's more than one of you.

There's lots of Shankars.

Which one are you going to be this year?

Hmm.