Simon Sinek
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The other one really doesn't care.
So I think that's what these shocks do.
And I think one of the things that storytelling does, one of the things that you do and I do and others do, is by telling the stories of other people's near-death experiences or other people's losses, hopefully, hopefully inspires people to take on themselves without having to go through the challenge themselves.
That's the ideal.
But I remember after September 11th, I was in New York on September 11th and lived through it.
Yeah.
I watched the buildings fall.
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
What part of... I was downtown.
I was in Soho.
Really?
I actually did the calculations.
I figured out it was exactly one mile.
You could see the buildings?
From my office, yeah.
I took the subway and the subway stopped at 14th Street and I still had to get to Soho.
So I walked down 7th Avenue, which the end of 7th Avenue was the World Trade Center.
Wow.
And so I was walking down watching them burning.