Simon Sinek: "A leader is someone who sees themself in service to some higher cause and
definitely to their people leadership is not about being in charge it's about
taking care of those in your charge the closest thing to leadership is being a
parent yes you have all the authority yes you have all the power but you're
responsible for the bringing up others around you helping them build their
confidence and see that they can achieve more than you so leadership is exactly
the same thing so what laters inspire you who your
favorite leaders so I mean I like all the big ones you know you're Gandhi's
and Martin Luther King's but there's there's a lot of the leaders that that I
turn to or look to for inspiration are not public and not well-known many of
them wear uniforms I'm become very close with some folks in the military I think
they're misunderstood very very often by by the general public and I met people
who I've cried with more than I've ever cried with anybody in a suit I've hugged
more often than I've ever hugged anybody in a suit and you know in in business we
have things called colleagues and co-workers but in the military they have
brothers and sisters and it's that that kind of intense relationship that I that
I love so much and learned so much about so you've learned a lot about leadership
over your time and you are a motivational speaker you speak to
inspirational well inspiration okay so is that just because a motivational
speaker since so 90s 84 is it yeah it's just like it's I didn't set out to be a
speaker I'm very very lucky that I have ideas that people request me to come
speak but it's it's very self helpy the whole but you know I think think of yeah
no not me for someone watching this what's something that they could do to
be a better person saying their workplace or in their life oh yeah so so
one of the things you can do is practice speaking last you know we're constantly
told you have to be a good listener but communication goes both ways you get to
speak and you get to listen yeah that would literally not work it would not
work wouldn't working a job well so Nelson
Mandela is universally regarded as one of the world's best leaders you know
different people are regarded differently depending on where you go
but Nelson Mandela is important because everyone thought he was great and he was
actually the son of a tribal chief and was asked by a journalist how did you
learn to be a great leader and he said when I was younger I remember going to
tribal meetings with my father and I remember two things one they always sat
in a circle and two my father was always the last to speak and if you think about
how we conduct meetings so often we walk in and say okay guys here's the problem
and here's what I think we should do but I'm interested in what you have to say
let's go around the room it's too late you've biased the room or people don't
feel heard and the strength that takes to not say anything and not even give
away what your ideas are and let people contribute not only do they feel heard
but you actually get the benefit of everything they they have to they have
to say so just practicing speaking last is is a big is a big one
now we've already heard in this in the show tonight that Millennials aren't
having enough sex which is terrifying and important but but is the future in
safe hands or Millennials a good hope I think every generations are good hope I
mean you know we never know what's going to happen they like every generation
prior to them have been molded by the events of their upbringing and there are
some significant important things that we have to remember is greatest
technology as it comes with a liability the thing that concerns me most about
the millennial generation is the addiction to technology we're all
addicted to technology but they grew up with the addiction and the statistics
are sort of alarming which is if you compare it to alcohol and dopamine is
the chemical that is released when we drink smoke or gamble that makes us
actually addicted to those things it's the same chemical that's released when
our phones go buzz or Bing when somebody discovers alcohol and starts drinking
prior to the age of 15 40% of them will become alcoholics if they just wait
until they're I think 19 the number drops down to something like 8% and so
if we're giving open access to an addictive device like a cell phone or
social media to kids under 15 the odds are incredibly high forty percent will
have an addiction later on in life and like all addiction it means they'll
struggle with human relationships they'll struggle dealing with stress and
this is what what scares me so much which we have age restrictions on
tobacco we have age restrictions on you know alcohol and gambling but we have no
age restrictions on social media or cell phones and yet it's just as dangerous so
I love Millennials for so many things they're so open to
others they're much more open than older generations to the sexuality or gender
identity of others they speak out when they when they don't when they work for
a company that doesn't offer them a sense of purpose or cause older
generations just suffer in silence and hate their jobs it's called having a job
it's about having a job that is part of it too yeah but and so I love them and
I'm hopeful for it but I am concerned about the addiction and their ability to
deal with stress as adults a disproportionately high number will
struggle you broke the internet recently when you said that Millennials suffer
from what you called failed parenting strategies have a look at this they were
told that they were special all the time they were told that they have anything
they want in life just because they want it some of them got into honors classes
not because they deserved it but because their parents complained and some of
them got a is not because they earned them but because the teachers didn't
want to deal with a parent's some kids got participation medals you got a medal
for coming in last Wow say some real support yeah for that now true or not
it's a brave man who goes around telling parents they're not doing a good job
that's a guy without kids yeah that's right
so where do you get off so the the funny thing is that most of that data comes
from parents themselves it's it's actually not sort of parenting experts
looking back at parents and saying you screwed up it's actually a lot of
parents now looking back at what they did in saying ooh maybe that no you know
so if you look at the data it's actually the parents themselves and a lot of the
things they tried parenting experts are also weighing and said it didn't work um
I've got to say I mean nightly suspicious of anyone who is
overwhelmingly positive all the time yeah and I'm just curious what do you
crap at yeah I'm bad at a lot of things I'm sort of a big baby I can't like like
for me to get my lucky continental no no no that's not something I would admit on
national no like for me to get my work done I
actually have a like this for when I write a book I shouldn't be saying this
on television either when I have to write a book I actually have a
babysitter that's what her title is she's my babysitter who comes over and
her entire job is to just sit in my apartment to make sure that I'm working
because I actually I have no discipline otherwise I'll just watch TV so you've
got a nanny I know she's babysitter so no not even at the level of nanny knows
like no she change you know that's that's remarkable because you say that
out loud is so it should be judged and the more you say it was like yes it's
that is exactly what I need in my life it I have to admit you know I it works
brilliantly it's just somebody who like cuz I'll just surf the internet
otherwise all day and when somebody goes are you working oh yes yes you know
we're working and having somebody there I work better so my most productive days
are when my babysitter's over now speaking of writing books your
latest book the the release in America and Taiwan I think yeah had a page that
smells of optimism one page yes what does optimism smell like it
I can't tell it's like what is it what you know was an unfamiliar with fear
yeah yeah I know what that smells like yeah it's like bananas I don't know I
can't describe it it's like how do you describe a Beethoven's Symphony it has
notes and those notes you can play chopsticks or you can play Beethoven's
Symphony and so the same thing goes in here there are notes of smell put
together in a way that is complicated and deep and wonderful and makes you
feel optimistic highly recommend it you could have a scent for the show yeah
some would say it already does
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