12/10(Sat.) Start with Why and Find your Why (Host:Kooper)

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12/10(Sat.) Start with Why and Find your Why (Host:Kooper)

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Dear all,

Please watch the video clip before coming to the meeting.
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Other references:
- Find Your WHY | Simon Sinek (4:53)
- 如何找回生活意義?| 薑餅資 (7:18)


Questions for Discussion:
Session I
1. Simon Sinek introduced the concept of the golden circle and emphasized the importance of starting with why.
Please explain what the golden circle is and the reason why starting with why is better than simply focusing on what and how.
1.1 Explain its benefits on an organization level as a leader
1.2 Explain its benefits on a personal level

2.
2.1 Have you found your WHY, or in other words, your purpose in life?
2.2 Does your WHY statement fit in with the expression “To ______ so that ______” where the first blank is how you want to help people and the second blank is the impact that you want that to have?
2.3 Does it make sense to you that the first blank must have something to do with altruism? Do you know or could you imagine anybody’s WHY statement that is an exception to this rule of expression? (e.g. the statement is all about themselves)

3. Mark Twain said, “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
3.1 What are the benefits of finding your why?
3.2 Do you intend to find your purpose in life? Why does it matter or not matter to you?

4. Simon Sinek says that your why was fully formed in your late teens or early twenties because it's the sum total of the experiences you have when you were kid, how you were raised, and what you got from your parents, family, and friends that made you who you are. Your why doesn't change with time. It's not a matter of creating a purpose, but figuring out what your why is. Do you agree with his opinion?

Session II
5. Typically, we spend significant amount of time on working. Assuming that a person's why has little, if there is any, to do with their job, what's your advice to them? How should they treat their job? (e.g. quiet quitting, use job as an indirect measure to achieve one's life purpose)

6. Simon Sinek recommended two exercises that might help find your why. The first one is asking a few close friends what it is that makes you a unique friend, what's the value you have in their life. Their answers will have something in common because your why is the thing you give to the world and amongst your closest friends it is the space you fill in their lives.
6.1 Have you tried to figure out what makes you who you are by asking close friends?
6.2 Did the exercise work to you, or do you think it would work if you haven't done so?

7. The second exercise consists of three steps.
Step 1: Create a list of people or experiences that has helped you become who you are today
Step 2: Share the stories with a partner about the experiences and the people who impacted you
Step 3: The partner's role is to help you discover an impact that is so profound and life-changing that you think it's your mission to have a similar impact on others

7.1 Have you experienced such kind of impact in your life? What is it?
7.2 How do you like this exercise? Do you think it's going to help you find your life purpose?

8. Other than the two exercises, do you have any tips on how to find one's life purpose?


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Agenda:
3:50 ~ 4:00pm Greetings & Free Talk / Ordering Beverage or Meal / Getting Newcomer’s Information
4:00 ~ 4:10pm Opening Remarks / Newcomer’s Self-introduction / Grouping
(Session I)
4:10 ~ 4:50pm Small Group Discussion (40 mins)
4:50 ~ 5:10pm Summarization (20 mins)
5:10 ~ 5:20pm Regrouping & Break
(Session II)
5:20 ~ 6:00pm Small Group Discussion (40 mins)
6:00 ~ 6:20pm Summarization (20 mins)
6:20 ~ 6:30pm Concluding Remarks

On-site meeting:
Meeting Venue: 丹堤咖啡 Dante Coffee (Minimum Order $80)
Address: 台北市濟南路三段25號[MAP]-捷運忠孝新生站3號出口步行3分鐘

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Re: 12/10(Sat.) Start with Why and Find your Why (Host:Kooper)

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Move to the top.
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Re: 12/10(Sat.) Start with Why and Find your Why (Host:Kooper)

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Hi all,
I've add some finishing touches to the questions for discussion. If you plan to print them out, please use the latest version. Apology for all the inconvenience caused!
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Re: 12/10(Sat.) Start with Why and Find your Why (Host:Kooper)

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Here are some additional information about why finding one's purpose is important.

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

In one TEDx Talks, Adam Leipzig found from people around him that those who were happier knew something about their life purpose. (如何在五分鐘內了解你生命的目的?)
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Re: 12/10(Sat.) Start with Why and Find your Why (Host:Kooper)

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Adam Leipzig's life purpose consists of four things:
1. What you do
2. Who you do it for
3. What those people want or need
4. How they change as a result (of what you give to them)

Among them, only one is related to yourself, three are related to others. Your why is always outward facing rather than inward facing.

Happier people make it a point to make other people happy and do things that make them feel well taken care of and secure. In short, if you make other people happy, you'll be taken care of, too.
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Re: 12/10(Sat.) Start with Why and Find your Why (Host:Kooper)

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Yes, we all need a purpose. Kooper must have the answer already. I want to follow him. :wink:
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Re: 12/10(Sat.) Start with Why and Find your Why (Host:Kooper)

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Rock 寫:
週六 12月 10, 2022 12:00 pm
Yes, we all need a purpose. Kooper must have the answer already. I want to follow him. :wink:
I'm afraid I don't have the answer. That's why I chose Simon Sinek's book FIND YOUR WHY as the topic. That has kind of forced me to delve deeper into the subject. Hopefully through my preparation of the hosting and through your discussions I would get more clues and eventually make my why clearer. :wink:
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Re: 12/10(Sat.) Start with Why and Find your Why (Host:Kooper)

文章 Michael-liu »

I remember vividly that Sherry ever said the following in her summary of one of our meetings “ There is no meaning (purpose)in life.”

I sort of agree with her. Haha 😅

Sorry, Kooper, Not trying to throw a wet blanket on your topic. 😆
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Michael-liu 寫:
週六 12月 10, 2022 12:41 pm
I remember vividly that Sherry ever said the following in her summary of one of our meetings “ There is no meaning (purpose)in life.”

I sort of agree with her. Haha 😅

Sorry, Kooper, Not trying to throw a wet blanket on your topic. 😆
Wow, what a nice use of the term wet blanket! :mrgreen:

I don't presume that everybody buys the idea of pursuing life purpose. Question 3 is a neutral question and is a perfect one for those who don't believe in life purpose or life meaning to express their stand.
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