The BEST Place to Find Courage Its Not Where You Think Simon Sinek

you know the pressures on us are overwhelming from wall street or our own egos or from internal incentive structures or our bosses whatever it is the pressures are overwhelming for us to play the finite game and so how do you stand up to massive external pressure courage and courage is something that comes from relationships you know it's external world famous trapeze artist would never attempt brand new death defying act for the first time without net they would never do it so why do we think that we could do something difficult without external support too i've had the opportunity to meet real heroes people who've risked their lives to save the lives of others with the belief that they were gonna die and they didn't and when asked why did you do it they all say something similar which is they would have done it for me it's external and so we have to have we have to take the time to foster and take care of people around us to nurture our relationships because when we're going to be doing something difficult when we're going to be swimming upstream when we're going to be innovating and and and and doing something different there are days we're going to doubt ourselves there are days we're going to get knocked on our ass there are days that storms are going to rise and we have to have people who say got your back you need to do this we need you the world needs this keep going believe in you you know and so courage courage comes from from not only our willingness to do that for others but then their willingness to do it for us and if we commit ourselves to just cause and we're willing to to do those things then you know the great thing is we take lot of people with us and change the world for the better and isn't that sort of the point of an infinite life to leave this world in better shape than we found it to leave the companies that we work for in better shape than when we started to leave our families stronger and better capable than than what they can do without us you know is isn't that what it means to live an infinite life that we can literally literally live on beyond our own lives