Motivational philosopher Jay Shetty explains how failure may not build resumes, but builds character and helps us learn to adapt to change.
Build A Life, Not A Resume: Street Philosophy With Jay Shetty
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a university professor started off his class by picking out of his back pocket
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a 20 pound note and in this lecture hall of about 200 people he asked how many of
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you would like this note
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naturally all the 200 hands went up he said interesting
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he then said before I let you have it let me ask you this question
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he took the note have folded in half twice and then he said how many of you
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want this no still 200 hands went up now he said let me try something else
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he took the note any compliments instead how many of you want this note now still
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200 hand up and finally check the note on the floor screwed with his shoe and
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crompton even more picked it back up now we’re dirt and said how many of you want
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this note all 200 hands are still up
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he said today you’ve learned an important lesson no matter how much i
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crumpled that note how much i scrunched up how many times it was trodden on you
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still wanted it because it was still worth 20 pounds in the same way that
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20-pound note held its value so do you no matter how many times life will tread
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on your life will clump of your life or scrunch you and life will squeeze you
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you would always keep your value that spark within us all of this knowledge
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and eternity that exists that spot will never be taken away our value is not
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created by the price of our clothes our bank balance or their job title that we
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have C we should be building life and not just building our cv’s in the middle
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of $MONTH 2009 he was the software engineer that no one wanted to hire he
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had 12 years of experience that yahoo but he was rejected by Facebook and then
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rejected by twisting he’d been to a great University he had a great TV but
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he decided to team up with one of his alumni members at yahoo and started to
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create an app and focus on the startup space in five years time he sold that
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out for 19 billion dollars to facebook
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believe it or not that was brian acton the co-founder of
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when he was rejected from facebook he said it was a great opportunity to
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connect with some fantastic people i look forward to life next adventure when
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he was rejected by Twitter he responded by saying worked out it was fired a long
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commute
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it’s so interesting to see that someone rejected from two of the top internet
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companies actually responded with humor and actually responded with positivity
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this lady was diagnosed with clinical depression her marriage had failed and
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she was jobless with a dependent child she was on a four-hour delay train
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journey from manchester to London when she came up with this idea and she
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started to write this book about this wizard and actually started writing she
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then finished her manuscript trigger the 12 publishers and was rejected by all 12
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believe it or not that’s JK Rowling this man wants his first company crumble he
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was a Harvard University dropout and his first companies demo didn’t even work he
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went on to build microsoft his name’s bill gates there for failure is just the
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sign that we need to widen our scope we need to be ready and build ourselves up
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for the next level
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actually what we end up achieving is far greater than what we envisioned for
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ourselves and this divine plan this orchestration can’t be happening without
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this intervention that occurs because if we had in our way we just settled we
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just accept what we thought was our goal we thought we were chasing then actually
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I’ve noticed that when you don’t get that later down the line you look back
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and reflect and realize that what you gained is so much greater failures are
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only failures when we don’t learn from them because when we learn from them
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they become lessons and we actually extract away all of these teachings and
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actually get more insight into how we can improve the way we work and how we
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can actually drive with a different energy the challenge we have is that we
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only talked about people’s failures when they succeed and that’s why they become
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this taboo or we feel like their failures never happened we need to share
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these stories
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earlier we need to bring out these stories and experiences on the journey
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so that people who are on the journey can actually follow in those footsteps
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and that’s why Steve Jobs said you can’t connect the dots moving forward the only
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can when you’re looking backwards
