Simon Sinek
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5,256 appearances
15 recordings
11 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 18 Jun
Simon Sinek’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It seems like there's something more important to human beings than just food and shelter.
And then the top of the peak is self-actualization, which sounds the most selfish thing in the world.
Like I am so self-actualized that I would literally sit on top of a pyramid and look down at all of you unactualized people because that's my goal to be self-actualized.
He's half right.
The mistake that Maslow made, he's the only thought of us as individuals.
And as individuals, yes, I need food and shelter first.
But as a member of a group, I need friends and I need love.
And self-actualization is not the thing I'm actually in pursuit of as a member of a group.
It's shared actualization that I'm looking for.
And unfortunately, for various reasons, which we don't have to go down that rabbit hole...
The past 30, 40 years, especially in the West, we have doubled down on individualism.
We have doubled down on my own career.
We've doubled down on how do I find love?
How do I find happiness?
We've doubled down on selfishness.
And it worked for a while.
It worked when the economy was really good.
Like in the 80s and 90s and 2000s, it's awesome.
Selfishness was great because it worked.
But now in a complicated, messy world where the economy isn't great and everything's not roses, all that self-interest is now not working.
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