Dan Martell - February 16, 2015


How To Discover Your Life Purpose： 3 Powerful Questions To Help


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In this episode, Dan Martell talks about how to discover your passion, your gift, and your purpose in life. He shares three strategies that he's heard over the years from super smart people, and three questions to ask yourself to help you get on track.

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00:00:00.800 Hey everybody, how's it going? Dan Martell here, entrepreneur, investor, and passionate father.
00:00:06.860 Today I want to talk to you guys about something that I get asked all the time,
00:00:11.460 and that's how do I discover my passion, my gift, my purpose in life?
00:00:16.060 And it's such a big question that, you know, I don't even feel like I could do it justice,
00:00:20.260 but what I want to do today is at least share some ideas, share some thoughts around questions
00:00:24.580 or things that you can think about that might help you get on track.
00:00:27.640 You know, when I started my first company, Maritime Vacation, you know, I had no passion for building a vacation rental site.
00:00:34.880 But what I did have was this really strong curiosity around building things.
00:00:40.400 And for me, it was development.
00:00:41.500 I used to code.
00:00:42.400 And, you know, building that website, building a product that people ended up using, seeing the excitement and the thing come to fruition was really what set me on this kind of path of continuing to refine.
00:00:54.700 You know, if you think about a camera, like refine the aperture and focus on what my life purpose was.
00:01:00.500 And I felt like every company since then, I've done five,
00:01:03.440 were always this opportunity to kind of make things better.
00:01:06.400 So today I want to share three strategies that I've heard over the years from super smart people
00:01:11.480 that will help you kind of think through these different things to get you going
00:01:15.280 and discovering your purpose and passion and your gift in life.
00:01:18.520 The first one is the intersection of three key areas.
00:01:21.740 One is human needs you're passionate about.
00:01:25.360 So think about the areas of life.
00:01:27.840 Maybe it's, you know, the education.
00:01:30.920 Maybe it's transportation.
00:01:32.640 I mean, just think about these human needs that exist and which ones you care about most.
00:01:36.920 The second one is what is your unique gift?
00:01:40.300 What do you feel that you're really talented at?
00:01:43.180 What thing do you do that you just love to do?
00:01:45.520 That is your unique gift.
00:01:46.880 And then the third one is the thing you're most passionate about, right?
00:01:51.080 And it's interesting because for some people, those are three different things.
00:01:54.960 So that's why you want to look at all those three areas and figure out the kind of like
00:01:58.420 the Zen diagram of all those things coming together in the intersection.
00:02:02.600 And that's a really great place to start looking at what is your potential passion, purpose
00:02:07.460 or gift.
00:02:09.080 The second one, the second one is such a great question.
00:02:12.460 You know, my friend Tim Ferriss once suggested this to me and it was just such a neat way
00:02:16.420 of thinking about life.
00:02:17.280 He said, what could you create that would still exist in 200 to 300 years from now?
00:02:23.300 Think about that.
00:02:24.540 200 to 300 years from now, what could I work on today that would still exist and be relevant
00:02:30.460 to people that would, you know, like, every time I think about that question, I think
00:02:34.480 of Steve Jobs, right?
00:02:35.640 Like, he built a company that, from my perspective, and Tim Cook just announced one of the largest
00:02:41.620 financial quarters in history of any public company, any company for that matter.
00:02:46.020 I think it was like $127 billion in revenue in one quarter.
00:02:50.840 You know, Steve Jobs set up this company to be around in 100, 200, hopefully 300 years from now.
00:02:57.160 Will they be making iPhones and computers?
00:02:59.280 Probably not, because most of these technologies are essentially in 7 to 10 year cycles.
00:03:04.720 But what he's done is he's created an infrastructure culture and a system that will be sticking around.
00:03:09.520 And that's the way I like to think about what I work on as projects.
00:03:12.120 You know, recently Clarity was acquired and the company that acquired us had that same vision as we did and that's why it was such an amazing fit.
00:03:20.700 And I wanted to share that with you guys because I think it's something that is worth thinking about that whatever I'm deciding, what projects I start, you know, do any of these, if you look at all the projects you're working on, do any of these have potential to be around in 200 to 300 years?
00:03:33.980 Great question, right?
00:03:35.300 The last one is probably the best out of all the three strategies.
00:03:39.180 and the question I like to ask people
00:03:41.160 is if I gave you a billion dollars
00:03:42.900 in your bank account today,
00:03:44.700 you got a billion dollars,
00:03:46.720 what would you do,
00:03:48.360 what would you spend it on
00:03:49.600 to make the world a better place, right?
00:03:51.460 You don't have to wait till you're a billionaire
00:03:53.020 or you have a lot of money.
00:03:54.400 Pretend I gave you a billion dollars.
00:03:56.020 What would you spend it on?
00:03:57.300 How would you get leverage?
00:03:58.340 Where would you invest that money
00:03:59.900 to make the world a better place?
00:04:02.520 Think about it, right?
00:04:04.120 Over the next 50 years,
00:04:06.080 how would you deploy that capital, that cash
00:04:08.740 so that you left this world being a better place?
00:04:12.560 And I just think that the answer to that question
00:04:14.740 is an amazing place to start looking at
00:04:16.980 where you should be spending your time,
00:04:18.940 where you think you could discover your purpose,
00:04:21.100 your passion, and your true gift to the world.
00:04:23.560 I hope you found those ideas really valuable.
00:04:27.060 I know that it's helped me kind of refine
00:04:29.100 every company I've started,
00:04:30.380 every new project I think of starting.
00:04:33.120 It helps me kind of create a filter
00:04:34.840 of will this have impact?
00:04:36.940 Will this leave a legacy?
00:04:37.840 see. Will this matter? Because I really believe our time here on earth is very short and we
00:04:42.100 shouldn't waste it. Make every day count. I'd love to hear from you in the comments below. Let me know
00:04:47.280 what idea or suggestion or takeaway was biggest for you. I'd love to hear from you in the comments
00:04:52.140 below. Leave a comment. And I want to challenge you guys to live a bigger life and a bigger
00:04:57.100 business. And I will see you next Monday.