Dave Evans
speaker
2,777 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that was his job, which he did well.
And then he would have ideas about how he could do it better, do it more creatively.
And more often than not, not only were people not interested, they didn't even want to hear about it.
Like, yeah, whatever.
I mean, where's that thing?
I mean, I ordered, you know, a hamburger with no cheese on it.
You know, I don't know what this sausage thing is, but where's my hamburger?
Right.
And he was pretty heartbroken.
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.
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