TED Talk of the Week: Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes
Film producer and, now motivational speaker Adam Leipzig attended his 25th Yale college reunion. After speaking with old friends, he came to an astonishing conclusion – more than 80% of them were unhappy with their lives.
The majority of his former classmates were financially stable, highly educated and with life partners – yet they were dissatisfied. Leipzig then questioned the 20% who were leading happy and fulfilling lives and found that most of them had studied what interested them in college, not what they felt would propel them to the “right” career. He also discovered that they knew something about their very own life purpose.
TAKE THIS QUIZ: How to Find Passion in Your Life
This sweet and well-meaning TED Talk of the Week deduces how to find your life purpose by asking five simple questions:
1. Who are you?
2. What do you love to do?
3. Who do you do it for?
4. What do those people want or need?
5. How do they change as a result of what you give them?
Watch on to figure out the meaning behind these five questions and how finding your life purpose might be a lot easier than you think.
