[Applause]
why is it that some people find career
fulfillment and others done and how is
it even possible that some of those
people are finding that career for
filming before the age of 35 what if I
told you that those young people have
been through more pain and discomfort
than the average young person that would
sound surprising right fulfillments
supposed to feel great our lives are
full of happiness our work is meaningful
but how do we get there in the first
place my name is fab mutts coach and 18
months ago I set out to answer the
question what do young people that feel
fulfilled have in common I want to
encourage people to live a life uniquely
suited to their interests and
personality I went to go out and find
the people that have found the sum’n to
get a better sense of the habits the
mindsets the decisions they made there’s
a common belief in this country that the
only way to prosperity is going to
repute Abul University getting a high
paying corporate job and there’s nothing
wrong with that that’s great for a lot
of people but it’s not for everyone and
so I want to dispel that myth and share
the stories of people who had done
things differently people who had an
unconventional career path and we’re now
living life on their own terms
I’ve spoken to over 50 people across a
wide range of occupations to get a
better sense of how they think about
meaning motivation and purpose
I’ve spoken to authors entrepreneurs
adventure sport athletes opera singers
you name it and as I continue to
investigate these people and get a
better sense of how they found
fulfillment in their 20s and early 30s a
common theme emerged almost all these
people have suffered from and overcome
adversity and not just the adversity of
doing something different and being a
little bit misunderstood or wanting to
work for themselves and struggling to
start a business no external adversities
friends dying families being torn apart
obesity career-ending injuries really
serious stuff and the majority those
people went through this but what does
that have to do a fulfillment let me
tell you about Hershey Hershey was born
in the beautiful country of the Phil
paeans she’s one of eight children when
she was 12 years old though her dad was
murdered she starts shoplifting soon
afterwards to provide for her family and
siblings when she was 16 her mother sold
her into an arranged marriage she was
sold her freedom was taken away from her
who here has been sold before
fortunately her she managed to escape
that ordeal but not before going
homeless for an additional two years
eventually some relatives managed to
find her and they brought her to
Australia
she now runs a successful online fashion
firm and her clothes are being sold all
over the world how do you think she felt
when in her first few years of starting
the business she couldn’t get any sales
well you think that challenges like to
her probably wasn’t such a big deal to
be honest she lost her dad when she was
12 and how about that time she wanted to
open a retail store ended up with 80
grand and dead probably shrugged it off
she’s been sold before she survived that
she’ll survive this and let’s take
something that happens to all of us I’m
sure is so annoying we got a brand new
smartphone we drop it on the ground what
do you think that’s like to her she it’s
nothing you know she was homeless for
two years
you see overcoming adversity makes your
other problems seem easily surmountable
I want to tell you now about mon-sol
Munsell had a keen interest in history
from a young age in fact when he was 18
he was a published author he had so much
in depth knowledge around a certain
battle in World War two that people want
him to publish a book because of this
interest in history he ended up working
in a private Jewish Museum it was around
this time though that he was conversing
with a girl over the Internet she was
over in Europe he was in the States and
he desperately wanted to meet her he
didn’t have a lot of money he wasn’t
sure what he would do unfortunately
temptation got the better of him and he
stole some of the documents from that
museum and sold them to private
collectors he went off to Europe he met
the girl but when he came back to
America he was arrested for his crimes
now his family and his lawyers they feel
pretty confident he probably wouldn’t go
to prison I mean it was a non-violent
crime after all and we’ll make mistakes
we were young but as the judge passed
down the sentence the brutal truth hit
him mon-sol was sentenced to eight years
in prison eight years now although he
managed to keep to himself behind bars
he still witness unexpected acts of
violence over and over again changed him
now fortunately he only spent six months
behind bars but when he got out he
realized that there weren’t a lot of
opportunities available to him employers
don’t look too kindly on people criminal
records and a lot of universities won’t
admit you so what do you do when no one
will hire you and you’re out of options
well you become an entrepreneur mod-soul
obviously saw that he was pretty limited
with what he could do and as they say
constraints force creativity he dived
straight into an entirely new industry
learned everything he could about it and
he saw what sort of opportunities that
were to put something out in the market
he is now a self-taught expert in
nootropics and cognitive enhancement
he’s about to wrap up a documentary with
some of the big names in the industry
and he’s in the process of publishing a
new book
you see overcoming adversity forces you
to creatively solve your problems now I
know that TED talks are supposed to be
full of grand controversial ideas but
I’m not here today to encourage you to
sell your freedom or go to prison no I
think it’s unlikely that we will
experience the level of adversity that
these individuals have but that doesn’t
mean that there isn’t a lesson here for
all of us you see the point I’ve tried
to illustrate with these examples is
that overcoming adversity enables you to
grow we’ve seen how makes your other
problems seem easily surmountable and
also forces you to creatively
problem-solve and that growth that
personal growth that’s a key part of
reaching fulfillment if a woman isn’t
something that just happens over and I
we don’t wake up one day we feel
fulfilled
it’s a journey we work for it and the
difference between where we are now in a
stage where our work brings out the best
in us there’s a lot of growth involved
and along that journey we’re all gonna
be presented with challenges every
single one of us is gonna have
challenges we face in our lives and
careers do we move off into that new
industry do we go overseas and leave our
lives here behind we start the business
we’ve always wanted to and those
challenges they are a form of adversity
there’s just one major difference
they’re optional you get to decide if
you want to tackle them and they are
often discomforting they are painful and
human beings we’re really really good at
avoiding pain that’s one of the reasons
we often shy away from challenges like
this
but let’s go back to our original point
overcoming adversity enables you to grow
and if we’re willing to tackle the
discomfort if we’re willing to face
these challenges that optional form
adversity overcoming those challenges
it’s what’s going to enable you to grow
you can’t shy away from the discomfort
the pain is what forces the growth so
now I want to tell you about a voluntary
challenge that I decide to face in my
own life 18 months ago I set out to
answer the question what do young people
that feel fulfilled have in common and
when I set out to do this I had no idea
where to begin I could have not been
more grossly under-qualified I also had
no idea as to the subsequent amount
challenges that would face me on this
path I don’t think I knew of anyone who
had reached fulfillment in their own
lives I certainly hadn’t interviewed
someone before and I had no training in
career fulfillment whatsoever I don’t
think I knew how to spell the word
fulfillment I had to check if it had two
L’s before making these slides and then
how was I gonna get these people to talk
to me even though I could find them you
know I was just a nobody I had nothing
to convince them to give me their time
but as we’ve seen big problems like this
they often require a creative solution
and so I decided on either platform I
needed a way to convince people to give
me their time and also a way to share
these stories out into the world so I
started a podcast which I called the
journey and then it hit me I knew even
less about podcasting than career
fulfillment I knew nothing about running
a podcast I’d listened to maybe one or
two before and I have no training in
audio engineering or sound production or
or interviewing people and so naturally
you’d think I’d be pretty bad at this
riot you’d be correct I was pretty bad
at this when I started I still cringe at
that very first interview I spoke over
the guest the entire time they would
respond I go yeah yeah yeah and I did
that every 30 seconds it was terrible
but slowly I got better and it was
partially practiced but but also
necessity I was just embarrassed and
really scared about making a fool of
myself in front of other people who I
respected I wanted to get to know better
I also had this additional challenge of
putting these episodes out into the
world making people listen these
interviews which was great the people
could listen to it and tell me that they
were enjoying it but bad because I told
me the audio was crap and there was
struggle to listen to so I had to then
go out and learn about compression and
leveling and normalization all those
fancy audio terms but one of the biggest
challenges I faced was having to move up
to speaking to bigger and bigger people
originally it was just the courage and
the connections I have to speak to
people I knew and slowly I stepped up to
friends of friends and then I bit the
bullet and I cold emailed complete
strangers asking if they tell me about
their life stories and their thoughts on
careers and sure enough I was soon ready
for my biggest challenge yet
interviewing one of my idols Ryan
holiday Ryan is a New York Times best
selling offer in fact he’s been on the
list more than once and it’s made all
the more impressive because he’s not
even 30 yet but as I was preparing to
interview Ryan it dawned on me he’d be
like the third or fourth person that I’d
interview without knowing personally and
I got really nervous in fact I can tell
you that that hour-long conversation was
the most nerve-wracking hour I’ve spent
talking to anyone before the pressure
completely got to me and if I hadn’t
prepared my questions ahead of time I
think I would have totally blown that
interview in fact the days afterward I
remember being upset that I didn’t do a
good enough job and I just refused to
listen back to the audio but if you can
survive an interview like that and I did
the other ones become easy solve the big
challenge and the others are easily
surmountable and so here we are 18
months later I’ve learned a lot about
podcasting I’ve learned a lot about
career fulfillment
and it’s only been possible by signing
up for the challenges by picking to do
them by by going one after the other and
trying to make them a little bit harder
each time it would have been easy to
quit I mean there are multiple times
where I wanted to stop doing this but I
wanted to see this happen I wanted to
see this go out into the world and I’m
glad I stuck it out because the process
has made me realize that there’s
something else I don’t know how to do it
just takes time and effort and a
willingness to challenge myself
you see facing challenges helps you
learn new skills and makes you more
confident in your abilities so hopefully
I’ve tried to illustrate here that it’s
beneficial for us to face challenges if
we want to grow personally understanding
that though that’s that’s the easy part
what about doing something about it it’s
it’s action that makes change you know
have the past 18 months doing this been
easy hell no but have they been the most
fulfilling of my life and career thus
far absolutely without a doubt it’s just
been more rewarding than anything else
I’ve ever done I’ve loved it and it’s
it’s been tough in fact if you’re going
to become better and you’re going to
learn to you know challenge yourself and
level up you’re gonna have to find
comfort in the discomfort and so I I
tell you to not shy away from that
discomfort that pain that’s that there’s
no sugarcoating it these challenges
you’re all gonna get offered them and
you should step into them you should go
into them full force there might be
times where you know public
embarrassment is as a consequence to the
fear of failure there’ll be a lot of
work you might not even know what you’re
doing half the time if you give a TED
talk for example I guarantee all those
things would happen
I’ve been shitting my pants for weeks
now
but remember it’s a challenge it’s about
the challenge that’s what counts
and you can’t shy away from the
discomfort because that’s what makes you
grow don’t avoid it and so what I leave
you with today to consider is this
what’s something you can do today that’s
uncomfortable but will help you grow
thank you
[Applause]
why is it that some people find career
fulfillment and others done and how is
it even possible that some of those
people are finding that career for
filming before the age of 35 what if I
told you that those young people have
been through more pain and discomfort
than the average young person that would
sound surprising right fulfillments
supposed to feel great our lives are
full of happiness our work is meaningful
but how do we get there in the first
place my name is fab mutts coach and 18
months ago I set out to answer the
question what do young people that feel
fulfilled have in common I want to
encourage people to live a life uniquely
suited to their interests and
personality I went to go out and find
the people that have found the sum’n to
get a better sense of the habits the
mindsets the decisions they made there’s
a common belief in this country that the
only way to prosperity is going to
repute Abul University getting a high
paying corporate job and there’s nothing
wrong with that that’s great for a lot
of people but it’s not for everyone and
so I want to dispel that myth and share
the stories of people who had done
things differently people who had an
unconventional career path and we’re now
living life on their own terms
I’ve spoken to over 50 people across a
wide range of occupations to get a
better sense of how they think about
meaning motivation and purpose
I’ve spoken to authors entrepreneurs
adventure sport athletes opera singers
you name it and as I continue to
investigate these people and get a
better sense of how they found
fulfillment in their 20s and early 30s a
common theme emerged almost all these
people have suffered from and overcome
adversity and not just the adversity of
doing something different and being a
little bit misunderstood or wanting to
work for themselves and struggling to
start a business no external adversities
friends dying families being torn apart
obesity career-ending injuries really
serious stuff and the majority those
people went through this but what does
that have to do a fulfillment let me
tell you about Hershey Hershey was born
in the beautiful country of the Phil
paeans she’s one of eight children when
she was 12 years old though her dad was
murdered she starts shoplifting soon
afterwards to provide for her family and
siblings when she was 16 her mother sold
her into an arranged marriage she was
sold her freedom was taken away from her
who here has been sold before
fortunately her she managed to escape
that ordeal but not before going
homeless for an additional two years
eventually some relatives managed to
find her and they brought her to
Australia
she now runs a successful online fashion
firm and her clothes are being sold all
over the world how do you think she felt
when in her first few years of starting
the business she couldn’t get any sales
well you think that challenges like to
her probably wasn’t such a big deal to
be honest she lost her dad when she was
12 and how about that time she wanted to
open a retail store ended up with 80
grand and dead probably shrugged it off
she’s been sold before she survived that
she’ll survive this and let’s take
something that happens to all of us I’m
sure is so annoying we got a brand new
smartphone we drop it on the ground what
do you think that’s like to her she it’s
nothing you know she was homeless for
two years
you see overcoming adversity makes your
other problems seem easily surmountable
I want to tell you now about mon-sol
Munsell had a keen interest in history
from a young age in fact when he was 18
he was a published author he had so much
in depth knowledge around a certain
battle in World War two that people want
him to publish a book because of this
interest in history he ended up working
in a private Jewish Museum it was around
this time though that he was conversing
with a girl over the Internet she was
over in Europe he was in the States and
he desperately wanted to meet her he
didn’t have a lot of money he wasn’t
sure what he would do unfortunately
temptation got the better of him and he
stole some of the documents from that
museum and sold them to private
collectors he went off to Europe he met
the girl but when he came back to
America he was arrested for his crimes
now his family and his lawyers they feel
pretty confident he probably wouldn’t go
to prison I mean it was a non-violent
crime after all and we’ll make mistakes
we were young but as the judge passed
down the sentence the brutal truth hit
him mon-sol was sentenced to eight years
in prison eight years now although he
managed to keep to himself behind bars
he still witness unexpected acts of
violence over and over again changed him
now fortunately he only spent six months
behind bars but when he got out he
realized that there weren’t a lot of
opportunities available to him employers
don’t look too kindly on people criminal
records and a lot of universities won’t
admit you so what do you do when no one
will hire you and you’re out of options
well you become an entrepreneur mod-soul
obviously saw that he was pretty limited
with what he could do and as they say
constraints force creativity he dived
straight into an entirely new industry
learned everything he could about it and
he saw what sort of opportunities that
were to put something out in the market
he is now a self-taught expert in
nootropics and cognitive enhancement
he’s about to wrap up a documentary with
some of the big names in the industry
and he’s in the process of publishing a
new book
you see overcoming adversity forces you
to creatively solve your problems now I
know that TED talks are supposed to be
full of grand controversial ideas but
I’m not here today to encourage you to
sell your freedom or go to prison no I
think it’s unlikely that we will
experience the level of adversity that
these individuals have but that doesn’t
mean that there isn’t a lesson here for
all of us you see the point I’ve tried
to illustrate with these examples is
that overcoming adversity enables you to
grow we’ve seen how makes your other
problems seem easily surmountable and
also forces you to creatively
problem-solve and that growth that
personal growth that’s a key part of
reaching fulfillment if a woman isn’t
something that just happens over and I
we don’t wake up one day we feel
fulfilled
it’s a journey we work for it and the
difference between where we are now in a
stage where our work brings out the best
in us there’s a lot of growth involved
and along that journey we’re all gonna
be presented with challenges every
single one of us is gonna have
challenges we face in our lives and
careers do we move off into that new
industry do we go overseas and leave our
lives here behind we start the business
we’ve always wanted to and those
challenges they are a form of adversity
there’s just one major difference
they’re optional you get to decide if
you want to tackle them and they are
often discomforting they are painful and
human beings we’re really really good at
avoiding pain that’s one of the reasons
we often shy away from challenges like
this
but let’s go back to our original point
overcoming adversity enables you to grow
and if we’re willing to tackle the
discomfort if we’re willing to face
these challenges that optional form
adversity overcoming those challenges
it’s what’s going to enable you to grow
you can’t shy away from the discomfort
the pain is what forces the growth so
now I want to tell you about a voluntary
challenge that I decide to face in my
own life 18 months ago I set out to
answer the question what do young people
that feel fulfilled have in common and
when I set out to do this I had no idea
where to begin I could have not been
more grossly under-qualified I also had
no idea as to the subsequent amount
challenges that would face me on this
path I don’t think I knew of anyone who
had reached fulfillment in their own
lives I certainly hadn’t interviewed
someone before and I had no training in
career fulfillment whatsoever I don’t
think I knew how to spell the word
fulfillment I had to check if it had two
L’s before making these slides and then
how was I gonna get these people to talk
to me even though I could find them you
know I was just a nobody I had nothing
to convince them to give me their time
but as we’ve seen big problems like this
they often require a creative solution
and so I decided on either platform I
needed a way to convince people to give
me their time and also a way to share
these stories out into the world so I
started a podcast which I called the
journey and then it hit me I knew even
less about podcasting than career
fulfillment I knew nothing about running
a podcast I’d listened to maybe one or
two before and I have no training in
audio engineering or sound production or
or interviewing people and so naturally
you’d think I’d be pretty bad at this
riot you’d be correct I was pretty bad
at this when I started I still cringe at
that very first interview I spoke over
the guest the entire time they would
respond I go yeah yeah yeah and I did
that every 30 seconds it was terrible
but slowly I got better and it was
partially practiced but but also
necessity I was just embarrassed and
really scared about making a fool of
myself in front of other people who I
respected I wanted to get to know better
I also had this additional challenge of
putting these episodes out into the
world making people listen these
interviews which was great the people
could listen to it and tell me that they
were enjoying it but bad because I told
me the audio was crap and there was
struggle to listen to so I had to then
go out and learn about compression and
leveling and normalization all those
fancy audio terms but one of the biggest
challenges I faced was having to move up
to speaking to bigger and bigger people
originally it was just the courage and
the connections I have to speak to
people I knew and slowly I stepped up to
friends of friends and then I bit the
bullet and I cold emailed complete
strangers asking if they tell me about
their life stories and their thoughts on
careers and sure enough I was soon ready
for my biggest challenge yet
interviewing one of my idols Ryan
holiday Ryan is a New York Times best
selling offer in fact he’s been on the
list more than once and it’s made all
the more impressive because he’s not
even 30 yet but as I was preparing to
interview Ryan it dawned on me he’d be
like the third or fourth person that I’d
interview without knowing personally and
I got really nervous in fact I can tell
you that that hour-long conversation was
the most nerve-wracking hour I’ve spent
talking to anyone before the pressure
completely got to me and if I hadn’t
prepared my questions ahead of time I
think I would have totally blown that
interview in fact the days afterward I
remember being upset that I didn’t do a
good enough job and I just refused to
listen back to the audio but if you can
survive an interview like that and I did
the other ones become easy solve the big
challenge and the others are easily
surmountable and so here we are 18
months later I’ve learned a lot about
podcasting I’ve learned a lot about
career fulfillment
and it’s only been possible by signing
up for the challenges by picking to do
them by by going one after the other and
trying to make them a little bit harder
each time it would have been easy to
quit I mean there are multiple times
where I wanted to stop doing this but I
wanted to see this happen I wanted to
see this go out into the world and I’m
glad I stuck it out because the process
has made me realize that there’s
something else I don’t know how to do it
just takes time and effort and a
willingness to challenge myself
you see facing challenges helps you
learn new skills and makes you more
confident in your abilities so hopefully
I’ve tried to illustrate here that it’s
beneficial for us to face challenges if
we want to grow personally understanding
that though that’s that’s the easy part
what about doing something about it it’s
it’s action that makes change you know
have the past 18 months doing this been
easy hell no but have they been the most
fulfilling of my life and career thus
far absolutely without a doubt it’s just
been more rewarding than anything else
I’ve ever done I’ve loved it and it’s
it’s been tough in fact if you’re going
to become better and you’re going to
learn to you know challenge yourself and
level up you’re gonna have to find
comfort in the discomfort and so I I
tell you to not shy away from that
discomfort that pain that’s that there’s
no sugarcoating it these challenges
you’re all gonna get offered them and
you should step into them you should go
into them full force there might be
times where you know public
embarrassment is as a consequence to the
fear of failure there’ll be a lot of
work you might not even know what you’re
doing half the time if you give a TED
talk for example I guarantee all those
things would happen
I’ve been shitting my pants for weeks
now
but remember it’s a challenge it’s about
the challenge that’s what counts
and you can’t shy away from the
discomfort because that’s what makes you
grow don’t avoid it and so what I leave
you with today to consider is this
what’s something you can do today that’s
uncomfortable but will help you grow
thank you
[Applause]
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