Ranjay Gulati

So what is our self-narrative?

What is important to us?

You know, Suma Jain, the physician down in New Orleans saying, I trained to be a physician to help people.

And now when people need my help in the most critical of moments, I'm going to stay home because I'm too scared.

So, you know, she had to really resource herself with that kind of self-narrative.

Other times, other people give us the narrative, you know, Francis Haugen's parents saying, if not you, then who?

And so you look at some of these people,

They have a narrative about themselves.

Like I am, this is who I am.

This is what I believe in.

They have convictions about some things that they hold dear.

So how do we create a belief system in which there are some fundamental beliefs that we hold dear?

And then we can remind ourselves of them when we have situations of uncertainty.

And people call them values.

They are values.

But beneath values is purpose.

Why am I here?

So I found that these people who have convictions, not only do they have a strong set of values, but they have great clarity about their purpose, why, intention, what in Sanskrit they call dharma.

Dharma is all about understanding the why question.

Most of Hinduism and Buddhism and all the spiritual threads over there were try.