if there is no joy when you wake up in
the morning if if you dread the sound of
the alarm clock going on
if you feel stagnant if you have the
thought in your head that there has got
to be more to life than this you know
what you should do I want you to know
something at the bigger your dream is I
want you understand the heart of the dry
the bigger your dream is early you will
have to get up alone where you gonna
have to stay up the bigger your drinking
is more effort you will have to put in
you’ll never see it for those of you who
are 70% 70% be smoked 30% Gizelle’s
that’s just enough for that other person
I’ll do you listen to me that’s just
enough for the other person who wants
just as you want I want you to think
about those goals I want you to taste
them I want you to school I want you to
be I want you to internalized it I’m
telling you to drink your drink if I
want you to self I want you to see space
I want you to know how close I want you
just like when the weather is changing
you can feel it I want you to be able to
feel when you’re getting closer to it
and closer to it but more importantly I
want you to know when you dream your
dream that there are other people who
are dreaming the exact same dream
when you said to yourself when the ball
comes out this is what I want to
accomplish you’re not the only person
that wants to accomplish it and now I
ask you this question
what do you do when a thousand other
people who aren’t exactly what you want
what do you do when you’re not the only
one that wants to make a million dollars
a year coughing you’re not the only one
that wants to be the president you’re
not the only one that wants to be a CEO
what if you’re not the only one that
wants what you want one of their
thousands of other people who want what
you want you have to outwork them you
got our climb them you’ve got to get up
earlier you’ve got to stay up later
you’ve got to execute and you’ve got to
go for seven well
if other people are putting in 40 hour
work weeks and you’re putting in 100
hour work weeks you will achieve in four
months when it takes them a year to
achieve stop crying and just keep
hustling hustle is the most important
work ever if you want this if you’re
miserable or if you don’t like it or you
want to do something else and you have a
passion somewhere else work nine to five
Seneca Laboratory family seven to two in
the morning is plenty of time to do
damage I mean we start building your
equity in your brand of whatever you’re
trying to accomplish after hours
everybody have time stop watching loft
if you really have a drive and you
really put your heart and soul into
something you can really make anything
happen
more like to just prove everybody wrong
you don’t I mean I wanted to make it and
I was going to make it regardless of
what anybody said this thing you’re
doing in free stuff
you’re not going to clean it by your yes
your family support you
yes your friends for key but it wasn’t
really so for them every day
my breakthrough was actually decided I
wanted to be an actor and go into drama
college they changed my life it turns my
dreams into a reality
it gave me an actual tangible target to
go oh actually I could do this
that was my break room because it was a
breakthrough of my mind ideas don’t come
out fully formed they only become clear
as you work on them you just have to get
started look yourself in the mirror and
ask yourself what do I want to do every
day for the rest of my life do that
right now is not the time to stop can’t
stop your stopping right now now it’s
not the time to stop a worrier or backup
or become apathetic now
the time to start again every day start
over now is not the time to start our
backup and retreat or get lost in all
the problems look you got to assume
right now that you can do way more way
more than you’re doing ask yourself this
question what is my potential it’s not
potential greater than what I’m
delivering and regardless of what people
think about my achievements or lack of
achievements whatever the case is look
around you and what you see is average
everywhere averages become an epidemic
you don’t have people living up to their
potential yet people doing almost
nothing before retreating back it up
people dinner lazy now is the time to
start again your secured your family
secure your future is left
and your destiny is yours not someone
else if there is no joy when you wake up
in the morning if you dread the sound of
the alarm clock going off if you feel
stagnant if you have the thought in your
head that there has got to be more to
life than this you know what you should
do you should stop doing whatever it is
you do you will become exceptional the
moment you make an exceptional decision
the only real change life is making a
decision you have to be and so clear in
your mind exactly what you want to do
and what you want to achieve and for me
it doesn’t work without any goal without
any targets I cannot compete properly
this this is when you know after you’ve
decided you commit to do this for the
long term whether it’s hard or easy
doesn’t matter you’re doing this if
you’re having a difficult time with
something your relationship isn’t where
you want it to be your finances are not
where you want to be your body’s not
where you want to be your business but
where it want to be you need to take
massive action if that doesn’t work try
something else but doesn’t work try
something else keep going with massive
action and you will find the way because
it will give you momentum you have to be
able to see what doesn’t exist
in order to be able to pull off or
achieve what in most people’s mind seems
to be impossible today I want to talk
about purpose but I’m not here to give
you the standard commencement about
finding your purpose
we’re Millennials we try to do that
instinctively instead I’m here to tell
you that finding your purpose isn’t
enough the challenge for our generation
is to create a world where everyone has
a sense of purpose
purpose is that feeling that you are a
part of something bigger than yourself
that you are needed and then you have
something better ahead to work for
purpose is what creates true happiness
and you are graduating at a time when
this is especially important when our
parents graduated that sense of purpose
reliably came from your job your church
your community but today technology and
automation are eliminating many jobs
membership in a lot of communities has
been declining and a lot of people are
feeling disconnected and depressed and
are trying to fill a void in their lives
as I’ve traveled around
I’ve sat with children in juvenile
detention and opioid addicts who told me
that maybe their lives would have turned
out differently if they just had
something to do and after school program
or somewhere to go I’ve met factory
workers who know their old jobs aren’t
coming back and are just trying to find
their path ahead for our society to keep
moving forward we have a generational
challenge to not only create new jobs
but create a renewed sense of purpose
I remember that night I launched
Facebook from that little dorm in
Kirkland house I went to Doakes with my
friend kayaks and I remember telling him
clearly that I was excited to help
connect the Harvard community but one
day someone would connect the whole
world the thing is it never even
occurred to me that that someone might
be up
we were just college kids we didn’t know
anything about that there are all these
great big technology companies of all
these resources and I just assumed one
of them would do it but this idea was so
cleared up that all people want to
connect so we just kept working on day
after day after day and I know that a
lot of you are going to have your own
stories just like this a change in the
world that seems so clear that you are
sure someone else is going to do it but
they’re not you will
[Music]
the morning if if you dread the sound of
the alarm clock going on
if you feel stagnant if you have the
thought in your head that there has got
to be more to life than this you know
what you should do I want you to know
something at the bigger your dream is I
want you understand the heart of the dry
the bigger your dream is early you will
have to get up alone where you gonna
have to stay up the bigger your drinking
is more effort you will have to put in
you’ll never see it for those of you who
are 70% 70% be smoked 30% Gizelle’s
that’s just enough for that other person
I’ll do you listen to me that’s just
enough for the other person who wants
just as you want I want you to think
about those goals I want you to taste
them I want you to school I want you to
be I want you to internalized it I’m
telling you to drink your drink if I
want you to self I want you to see space
I want you to know how close I want you
just like when the weather is changing
you can feel it I want you to be able to
feel when you’re getting closer to it
and closer to it but more importantly I
want you to know when you dream your
dream that there are other people who
are dreaming the exact same dream
when you said to yourself when the ball
comes out this is what I want to
accomplish you’re not the only person
that wants to accomplish it and now I
ask you this question
what do you do when a thousand other
people who aren’t exactly what you want
what do you do when you’re not the only
one that wants to make a million dollars
a year coughing you’re not the only one
that wants to be the president you’re
not the only one that wants to be a CEO
what if you’re not the only one that
wants what you want one of their
thousands of other people who want what
you want you have to outwork them you
got our climb them you’ve got to get up
earlier you’ve got to stay up later
you’ve got to execute and you’ve got to
go for seven well
if other people are putting in 40 hour
work weeks and you’re putting in 100
hour work weeks you will achieve in four
months when it takes them a year to
achieve stop crying and just keep
hustling hustle is the most important
work ever if you want this if you’re
miserable or if you don’t like it or you
want to do something else and you have a
passion somewhere else work nine to five
Seneca Laboratory family seven to two in
the morning is plenty of time to do
damage I mean we start building your
equity in your brand of whatever you’re
trying to accomplish after hours
everybody have time stop watching loft
if you really have a drive and you
really put your heart and soul into
something you can really make anything
happen
more like to just prove everybody wrong
you don’t I mean I wanted to make it and
I was going to make it regardless of
what anybody said this thing you’re
doing in free stuff
you’re not going to clean it by your yes
your family support you
yes your friends for key but it wasn’t
really so for them every day
my breakthrough was actually decided I
wanted to be an actor and go into drama
college they changed my life it turns my
dreams into a reality
it gave me an actual tangible target to
go oh actually I could do this
that was my break room because it was a
breakthrough of my mind ideas don’t come
out fully formed they only become clear
as you work on them you just have to get
started look yourself in the mirror and
ask yourself what do I want to do every
day for the rest of my life do that
right now is not the time to stop can’t
stop your stopping right now now it’s
not the time to stop a worrier or backup
or become apathetic now
the time to start again every day start
over now is not the time to start our
backup and retreat or get lost in all
the problems look you got to assume
right now that you can do way more way
more than you’re doing ask yourself this
question what is my potential it’s not
potential greater than what I’m
delivering and regardless of what people
think about my achievements or lack of
achievements whatever the case is look
around you and what you see is average
everywhere averages become an epidemic
you don’t have people living up to their
potential yet people doing almost
nothing before retreating back it up
people dinner lazy now is the time to
start again your secured your family
secure your future is left
and your destiny is yours not someone
else if there is no joy when you wake up
in the morning if you dread the sound of
the alarm clock going off if you feel
stagnant if you have the thought in your
head that there has got to be more to
life than this you know what you should
do you should stop doing whatever it is
you do you will become exceptional the
moment you make an exceptional decision
the only real change life is making a
decision you have to be and so clear in
your mind exactly what you want to do
and what you want to achieve and for me
it doesn’t work without any goal without
any targets I cannot compete properly
this this is when you know after you’ve
decided you commit to do this for the
long term whether it’s hard or easy
doesn’t matter you’re doing this if
you’re having a difficult time with
something your relationship isn’t where
you want it to be your finances are not
where you want to be your body’s not
where you want to be your business but
where it want to be you need to take
massive action if that doesn’t work try
something else but doesn’t work try
something else keep going with massive
action and you will find the way because
it will give you momentum you have to be
able to see what doesn’t exist
in order to be able to pull off or
achieve what in most people’s mind seems
to be impossible today I want to talk
about purpose but I’m not here to give
you the standard commencement about
finding your purpose
we’re Millennials we try to do that
instinctively instead I’m here to tell
you that finding your purpose isn’t
enough the challenge for our generation
is to create a world where everyone has
a sense of purpose
purpose is that feeling that you are a
part of something bigger than yourself
that you are needed and then you have
something better ahead to work for
purpose is what creates true happiness
and you are graduating at a time when
this is especially important when our
parents graduated that sense of purpose
reliably came from your job your church
your community but today technology and
automation are eliminating many jobs
membership in a lot of communities has
been declining and a lot of people are
feeling disconnected and depressed and
are trying to fill a void in their lives
as I’ve traveled around
I’ve sat with children in juvenile
detention and opioid addicts who told me
that maybe their lives would have turned
out differently if they just had
something to do and after school program
or somewhere to go I’ve met factory
workers who know their old jobs aren’t
coming back and are just trying to find
their path ahead for our society to keep
moving forward we have a generational
challenge to not only create new jobs
but create a renewed sense of purpose
I remember that night I launched
Facebook from that little dorm in
Kirkland house I went to Doakes with my
friend kayaks and I remember telling him
clearly that I was excited to help
connect the Harvard community but one
day someone would connect the whole
world the thing is it never even
occurred to me that that someone might
be up
we were just college kids we didn’t know
anything about that there are all these
great big technology companies of all
these resources and I just assumed one
of them would do it but this idea was so
cleared up that all people want to
connect so we just kept working on day
after day after day and I know that a
lot of you are going to have your own
stories just like this a change in the
world that seems so clear that you are
sure someone else is going to do it but
they’re not you will
[Music]
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