Great advice on essentially being the person you want to be at your job, yet doesn't really tell you *how* to *quit* your job and live your truth if your work doesn't suit you. If you know your passion (as I do), you have to find a way to live it, and that may not be possible right away. Meanwhile, you still have bills to pay, etc. Personally, I'm an artist and musician soul at a corporate job that does *nothing* for me.. but I need the money so I can move and hopefully finally start to live my truth. There's absolutely nothing about what I currently do at my job that can satisfy my passion, so I must accept and tolerate my circumstances until I can change them. The way I see it, my boss uses me and I'm using my boss so that I can eventually break free from his "shackles" and do what I really want to do. I think this is the reality for most of us: aware that we're "sheep" caught up in a system, and doing what we can to survive until we can break out of "jail".
I think your comment hits the nail at the head. Any suggestions by other viewers on 'ideas' that address this situation that many people find themselves in?
Love this! You are the important piece of whatever it is that you do. It's all about your perspective and how you see and feel about yourself. You bring something different to the work place. Have you ever met someone who you will never forget, a long time friend, a co worker, someone you talked to in the store? They were just being them, but they were exactly who you needed in your life at that time? How do you know that's not you to someone else? You've made an impact on people in your lifetime that you may never have realized. I want to make sure I'm the best me where ever I go or whatever I do because I'm bringing my tov into it.
I first found this talk a couple years ago. I agree with it even more now. I quit my Day Job (for which I lost my "passion") and started travelling full time. Flying to every country, recording my journey. So I can identify with John Scherer's message.
10 Million Miles Journey i wish i can quit my job to0.... do the things i want,, things that i really really really want to do... i'm a chef and ive lost my passion in cooking because i just let my self before that this will set me free (financially) but then im working on for my savings.that someday i can quit this. im just like dying everyday... going to work...im just like a robot doing things they want me to do... i wake up every morning that nothing excites me at all... i want to do my t0v but u just cant.... somehow this helps decrease my depression... thanks sir john....
Jerome Baculo Dimayuga Just noticed your comment (I was in Japan for the last month, filming for my TH-cam channel). If you could quit your job as a chef, what type of job or life would excite you?
Although I love his way of seeing things, but I’ve tried it at my current job that I dread. You can’t help it when you work with assholes who favour other workers. As much as you’re trying to stay positive and learn, there’s always something wrong you did and your supervisor and his other team members drains you because they want you to work as the way they work. I just hate being controlled by someone rude. I don’t mind working in a team and under someone who is fair, I love the job. But it’s the people that makes my daily work difficult, when you stand up to a mean supervisor, he would do everything he can to make your day a little harder just because you hurt his lil ego. So, if the work drains you no matter what you’re trying to do to be successful without being affected in your environment, leave. Some things are just not worth it. I am resigning today and giving in my 2weeks notice, and I’m prepared for what ever comes. My sanity and my happiness is much more important right now. I’ll find another job.
He does not tell us you quit our jobs literally. This is only a catchy tittle. He tells us to change our attitude, to be 'you' at what you do. This may lead to change the job, but does not have to.
Hi, i have just done the transcript for people who might have problem with understanding. There are some missing words in the transcript because i am not a hero in english :D So enjoy;) Ah, this is great, Vítám***. This is kind a high, I think trim the master volume down. Good. This has been a great experience for me living in Poland for the last three years, I have lived in Krakow I love your city, I love the people, I love Poland, thank you it’s a great place. I go back to Seatle where I have my office and Seatle people say “John what do you do in Poland?” and I say “you’ve never been there have you?”. Now the certain things that are different about Poland and then in America as you might go. We were at end of one of our three and half day leadership development seminars, and a participant came up at the end, and I said how was this for you? He said [nížly]. And I turned to my colleague,it was my first week in Poland, and I turned to my colleague and said dear what is that mean? He said not bad. And I said not bad?? Jeasus three and a half days and he says no.. Then he said the guy just told you that you changed his life! And I said ha ha, and I said why didn’t he tell me? He said he did, he told you it was not bad, he said John this is Poland, this is Poland. So anyway it’s been a wonderful, wonderful time here. I wanna talk with you about something dear to my heart, and it goes like this. How to turn your workplace your job into experience personal development. You know what the midlife crisis is, right? A midlife crisis is when you get to the top rung on your ladder and you realize that you leaned it against the wrong wall. So I am gonna take I am gonna ** everything in next eighteen, now sixteen minutes, to help to lean your ledder against the right wall. Dobže? Okay. Now, nýžly. Now some of you that already passed your midlife crisis I have antoher saying for you and this it’s never too late to become what you might have been. Ok? So, here we go. Gonna go fast. Where do you spend your most awake time? What’s the answer? Work. So maybe, some of your students, but when I asked the question, how many of you spend eight hours a day at work? Let’s say you work, raise your hand eight hours a day, ok, nine hours a day, ten hours a day, come on eleven, come on twelve, see ok, I r** my case. You work more than you sleep. You spend more time at work awake than anywhere else in your life. So the workplace is an extremely important part in your life. Now I ask people, now I am gonna ask you. As a human being are you a finished product or are you work in progress? What would your answer be? Work in progress. Everybody says that. Ok, where do you do your progressing, where do you do your developing? And people talk about seminars, and they talk about their religious institution, reading books and so for, and I ask what about a workplace? And they go workplace? What has that got to do with, you know, progressing. So this is my mission in life really, is to help people to turn workplace into a place where they can grow up and develop. In America this is kind of the way by seeing many people, its like I have a life and I have work, how to these two relates each other? Some people have it, oh lets see this is a laser here? Yeah, cool. So some people have a life and the work and they are trying put them together in some equal fashion. Other people say you know what my life, I don’t think so *** performing, this way, I’ve got lot of life and my work is a part of my life, but it’s not my whole life. This is what I experience in Poland. I experience that yeah? I was given up a talk recently in Wroclaw and I young man came up to me and he said you know my mother, he is a photographer, and he said my mother said why are you wasting the education we gave you, why don’t you get a real job? And because, he said my mother is from the old generation in Poland where the important thing is have a job, it doesn’t matter what the job is, doesn’t matter if the job fits you or not, doesn’t matter if it has anything to do with what you really wanna do. You have got a job, keep the job, for Pete sake why don’t you go to get a job, so you’ll have a job. I’ll tell you a minute, I am gonna educate you, how many of you have a job? Ok, in a minute I am gonna educate you to quit your job so stand by. Now, don’t get nervous its ok. This is what I notice a lot in Poland. People actually draw, build a wall between their life and their workplace. My friend’s told me that in the old days, your family system, your social, your friends were completely separate from work. They said you can work beside someone for years and not know really the name of their sp***, or they have children, any problems going on in their life. This is completely separate. So what I am saying you can’t separate, how can you separate your life from your work? You are a human being in both of those places. So I have a suggestion for you here. Oh, you can’t see that. It’s a really cool picture but you can’t see it. Its not what you made today when you go to work, its not just what you made, but what do you’ve been made into. Its not just what you produced for the company, but what in beeng produced in you while you producing that for the company. Or like this. Its not just what happened today at work but what is happening inside you while all that stuff is happening at work. Two people go to work side by side, one person goes home at the end of the day and says oh my God what a disaster what a I. nnn… The other person working right beside him goes home and says Man, I really learned a lot, this is incredible. So everyone gets the experience, some get the lesson, my favorite quote from T. S. Eliot I am gonna rip through some of this. I think we show up with assignment with three parts. Discover who we are, express it into the world in such a way that makes create a difference. Now, I am gonna suggest you turn your job, your workplace into a classroom or a Dojo, I do little Aikido, its like place where you can practice being who you are, why not. Your faculty is waiting for you every day, the faculty are those idiots you have to work with. You know in fact the worse person there is your most important teacher, but that’s the advanced class, ok? The curriculum is all th** that happens to you all day long, I know the word in Polish but I am not supposed they told me not to say it. But its all the stuff that happens to you during the day, that’t your curriculum. And you know what the grades accept what happens inside your body when you go home at the and of the day, that’s how you measure what happenes in work, and there is a final exam butthen its too late. A job, by the way the word job comes from the old English word gobbe. Which means a loop of something. So in the old days you took stuff from here and you moved it over here. How many loop you got payed, but how many loops or gobbes you move from here to here, so in, out, in out, today in basket, out basket, in basket, out basket, all day every day, no matter where you are whatever matter level you take stuff in you move it over here. That’s a job. Personally I don’t want to have a job. If that’s a job I don’t want one, ok? I recommend that you ** have a job, but you look for a work. What is your work? What is the work that you are here for? Work comes from the Greek word for erg which I think, I am looking at my physics man here, I think is how many calories is to take to move one gram one centimeter, if I memor* my physics right. One o one. Is that close enough? Yeah, nýžly. So work switch from erg to work in the old german which that become the word work. So work is energy with a direction. Its purpose for energy. So personally I think you should quit your job and find your work. Ok? Its very important seriously. Very important thing to do. Now, I wanna tell a story about this really quickly. I was doing an ex** seminar for a woman who ** big corporation in Seattle and her team of vice presidents. Her name was Sherley, behind your back they called her Dragon Lady. Ok? And so I dispoint a seminar she says John this is all sweet and wonderful but what has this got to do with leadership and running this organization. I said well, ok, what would you do with your life if you didn’t have to come to work every day? She said I’d go home and play with my grandchildren. I said ok. Let’s go with that. And I said one of the vice president there, would you come up with the easle* and take some notes? And I said tell us what is this about your grandchildren? She said well first of all I have to get the house ready. What is that mean? Well I wanna make sure it is safe, I wanna make sure that there is some interesting things there for them to do, wanna make sure to have enough food and things to do and then I have to get myself ready, I gotta have a right attitude, what is that, well I got be ready I gotta show them how much I care about them and so for it. And all this is get written down. Ok, the kids are coming what do you do? Well I get down on my knees great them at the front door, on your knees? Why? Well, I want them to know I wanna meet them at their own level and so forth. What do you do during the day? Well I just follow them around and hope they are okey and if I get I get a chance to teach them something, you know, I’ll do it. And all this is get written down. Then she says good bye to them at the door. Now at the end of the story she is kind a quiet, little bit emotional, and I said what’s going on? She said well this is very sweet, she said, but I don’t see what it has to do with leadership. So I got my course, I’m consultor, right? So I am scared after death if there is not gonna be any connection between*** she’s not gonna find it, but I looked at the flipchart , and I said well just look at this, and look at that and tell me what you see and she read it, and I said maybe this is another description of you as a leader of this organization. And she said Moj bože, no she said oh my God she said. She said my God, she said do you mean that I can bring the grandmother to work? And all of the vice presidents were going, oh God yes, oh please, oh please!!! You know and so, it was really interesting. I came back three months later to do some follow up and the receptionist at the front desk **levels** she said John come here, she said grandma is in the building. So it was great. So the question I have for you is who is that who lives in you that you need to bring to work? 20.1.2014 Now we gonna go, do some more. This is what I called the diferred life plan. This is the default plan that we were all taught in America I am convinced you were taught this here. You work really hard now, you do whatever you have to do in order to have what you need to have, then as soon as you have enough of that whatever it is money or st*** or the trophy, you know all the toys, whatever you need, as soon as you have enough of that, then and only then you get to be happy, be peace, be, you know, relaxed, whatever it is. Now there is one very small problem with this formula. It doesn’t work. Why? Because you never have enough. If I ask you how much money do you need what’s the answer gonna be? A little more than I have now. I mean, everybody says that. So you can never have enough, if you make your being happy relaxed or peace cont* of anything you’ll never get there. Sales people understand this. Sales people understand this. They make the sale how do they feel? Nýžly, right? No, dobže, bardzodobže, fantastičně, zaje fajně. Now, I’ve just used all my polish vocabulary I have now, and how long does that feeling last? Till the next phone call hm? And then its going again. I am proposing something extremely radical which is to turn the whole thing around and let what you do be an expression of who you are and then you get feedback from the world in form of money and, but who cares? Because you are starting from a place, that what you are doing is an expression of who you are. Dobže? Ok? Rozumieš? Ok, cool. Now I wanna talk about this word right here, TOV. I am gonna go back to my roots in the Creation story in the book of Genesis, ok? Now the native amrican story tell us in America, we are always saying that. I don’t know is the story happened exactly the same this way, but the story is true. So I am almost positive that didn’t exactly happened this way but the story is true. At one point it says the Lord created the oceans and then looked and saw that it was good. Must be some Lutherans in the room here, so anyway. So that’s a terrible translation for that word, the word is tov in Hebrew, Mazltov, lots of tov, a better translation is that the Lord created the oceans and looked and said yee, yes, that’s what I’m talking about, that’s what I’m talking about, yeah, yeah. That’s a piece of me out there in the world, where you can see it. You wanna learn something about me? Look at my ocean. That’s tov. My daughter,** this way, oh you can’t see my daughter Ema, oh that’s so sad. My daughter Ema is twenty-five ye.. twenty-three, she’s going to school in Paris, France, studying theatre dance and a voice, and ah, she started dancing, when she was, you know, could walk, and if Ema would dancing here, she would not be dancing to impress you, she would not be dancing to get feedback, she’d be dancing because she is Ema. And Ema dances. You get Ema, you get a dancer. That’s it. The other day on Skype, she said dad if I break a legend can’t dance, she said I don’t know what I am gonna do, she said this is who I am. You get Ema, you get a dancer. My son Eica, wanna get a picture of Eica, no? No, too bad. Oh, there he is. My son Eica is now twenty five, plays piano and trombone classical jazz and so forth. And I came in this little house that we had, little tiny house, big grand piano fill the whole living room and Eica was playing the rock man enough piece ok, the whole house was shaking, you know little tiny house, big grand piano, and I stood at the back door, and I just let the music just wash over me. And I stood there and I had this insight, I could picture Eica at the piano and then I realized that the house was not shaking with the piano, the house was not shaking with the rock man enough, the house was shaking with Eica. Eica was filling the house, the grand piano just sits there until Eica puts his fingers on the keyboard, the rock man enough its dots on a piece of paper until he reads it and interprets it through who he is and puts his hands on keybord and then the music happens. You are in job somewhere, workplace somewhere, your name is in box of on an organization chart, that’s just your piano, and your job assignment is just a dots, its rock mana enough, its just dots on piece of paper until you put your hands on the keyboard and then you start to play. If you leave another name goes into that box, the music will be different. The music is your music. Has nothing to do with the job, its you interpreting that music into the world. So my suggestion is, when you don’t know what to do go for tov, go for tov, tov is what you, is when what you’re doing is an full expression of who you are at the core of your being in such a way that contributes to other people around you and it is alignment with what life, what creation needs from you. So every day that you go to work, just ask yourself what is the lesson here? What is this for me? Instead of saying what a wonder if its happened to me, just turn it slightly, and say I wonder if its happening for me, I wonder its might be happening for me. So, thank you so much for the chance to be with you I highly recommend going for tov, its an extraordinary way to live, you get Ema, you get a dancer, you get me , you get this, ok? Thank you very much.
I can’t quit because my visa is tied to my job. Every morning I am trying to find excuses not going to work. Sometimes I meditate to change the mindset; sometimes it’s just hard
@@stephenw4720 I totally ubderstand, I too look for reasons to not be at work all the time. I hope that one day we find a job that we like and brings us peace and happiness.
It would be worth every employer and every employee watching this short video over coffee some morning at work, sooner rather than later. Thank you John for your inspiring talk. Johnnie lawson
When you work at a place that is run by selfish bosses you learn quickly what not to do. Learning goes both way, you can learn what to do, and also learn what not to do, at the end of the day they both attribute to your personal growth. When a boss/company lies to people that's when you bail. Stop bending over for a paycheck, if they don't do you any favors why do them favors?
I agree. In fact, I agree so much, that I see through the BS way too quickly at every job. This is why its hard for me to keep one. I get good jobs, all kinds of different things.. But after that 90 days companies behave toward you like they own you. Like you must walk and talk like them otherwise you'll be pariah. Either you quit because they're all the same or youre totally different.... Either way, my experience with jobs is that its all about control. If they cant completely control you, youll never get promoted. Anyway, my small 2 cents. Total and complete control seems to be the norm. Micromanging at its max. No one is trusted to have their own brains a skill to accomplish anything. Even when you have experience they say youre not worth what you ask because it wasnt experience within their company. Work feels more and more like slavery no matter where I go.
@@MissLovely42 you said some very wise impressive things. And very provable things also. I know that on some job environments the elementary ABCs of a job are very important but as you said about control they focus on whether or not you crossed every tee and dotted every eye and cute and if you haven't that's an issue never mind that ABC is the most important thing to take care of they want like you said total control for mindless meaningless reasons to their own detriment you just have to shake your head and laugh to keep from crying. Keep up your good analyzation skills
Here's the lesson: "If you don't like your job, learn how to love it instead! Make your work an extension of yourself!" His examples of his kids being a dancer and a pianist and that's who they are, that's just wonderful. Tell me, how does that translate to their occupation? Does she dance around deadlines at work? Does he type 300 words per minute? Do they have careers? If they do, do they even like them? I'll give him credit for saying success does not equal happiness. At some point, the money just doesn't matter if you're miserable. There is a level of income where you need to survive, then there is a level where you are comfortable and can pay the bills with extra money in your pocket, and after that it's really irrelevant other than you can have more expensive hobbies and "nicer" things. I think most people will figure this out early in their careers. I also enjoyed the analogy of a midlife crisis. It really is like climbing to the top of a ladder against the wrong building. Regardless, it's not really good advice yet so many people gobble this stuff up and pretend that they got something out of it. Listen, if you have a shitty job then you have to put yourself out there and try to get a job somewhere else. If you have a great job and you're still not happy, maybe you need to try a different career path. Maybe you need to be in business with yourself and be your own boss. The one thing these people don't tell you is that most people have no clue what they want to do and no magic seminar is going to put it in perspective, you have to be willing to take a chance to make it happen. You may have to work in many different roles at many different companies until you find something that you really enjoy, or maybe you won't ever enjoy working for someone else. Is it easy to do these things? No. Is it practical? Financially, probably not. Is there risk involved? Absolutely, but there really are no alternatives. You either go for it and succeed (or fail and try again), or you never go for it and stay miserable.
Chip Conley, founder of the Joie de Vivre hotel group in the SF Bay Area talked about jobs. He equates a job with people who bring their body to the place of work. A bus driver is doing a job: he brings his body to the bus depot, gets on a bus and just drives his/her route. Next up is a career. That's when you bring your body and your mind to the place of work. A lawyer, a doctor, an accountant. You can't just bring your body and slum it. But, there's a higher level. That is a calling. A calling is where you bring your body, your mind, and your soul. Michelangelo is willing to lie on a scaffolding to paint the Sistine Chapel because he can't conceive of doing anything else. Madison Bumgarner's role as a pitcher is his career. Buster Posey's role as a catcher is a calling. The first violinist of an orchestra has a career. The soloist playing a violin concerto has a calling. Find your calling.
John Scherer has a lovely manner. Really enjoyed his relaxed style. There's nothing all that new in what he says, but he says it beautifully and with heart. Also, even if this is common knowledge, there are still a great many people out there who don't enjoy their working lives - they prob need all the inspiration they can get. It'd be nice to hear comments from people who have either improved their existing jobs (like the Dragon Lady) or made a total change.
I am astounded at the number of people in this comments section who think that this speaker was actually advocating that we LITERALLY quit our jobs. He was just saying to turn your current job into a vehicle for your personal expression through your work.
Inspirational! This communicates something about being human that is very deep and hard to put into words. Beautiful, many thanks. We are only slaves to our mind set. Find yourself, be yourself, be free.
Samantha Derrick >>> Totally agree. Have seen people´s hair and nails fall off gradually because of stress and unhealthy jobenvironment, and even take nervemedicine to be able to endure to go to work...
How do I apply this in my life? I am a nurse and everyday of my life I try to be the best that I can be but everyday my job is pushing me to the brink of depression because of the too much pressure being put on our shoulders. We nurses get all the shit whenever some asshole want to change something how they operate their business. Health Care is now managed by businessmen.
Myra San Jose Are there any opportunities to work in non-profit nursing? Typically the people have hearts in the non-profit sector. Good luck, and make that change because depression sucks!
What about working in preventative care? What about starting your own clinic with some doctors? People who give a shit about helping sick people not business or money or whatever your bosses care about? What about having this chat with the other nurses and doctors and other colleagues and together you work something out..? E.g. you go to your boss or CEO or change something at work to make it more manageable.. Is work going to continue the way it is indefinitely if you don't change something about it??
I know exactly what you mean John. I am working as a carer in a care home for old people with dementia and this job is very demanding and challenging, but also often very rewarding. And I learn every day something not only about these people but about myself.
Shalom. And then Yehovah Tzevahot made us and He said Tov, Tov! Best speach and advice. You had me in tears. A speak the Aaronic blessing over you and your family. In Yeshua's Name. Amen. From South Africa
IM GOING FOR TOV! THANKS FOR THIS AMAZING TALK! VERY REALISTIC! ROOF OVER MY HEAD, AND FOOD ON THE TABLE, BUT AFTER QUITTING MY JOB I'M READY TO MAKE MY LIFE TOV!
@@shawarmageddonit Not looking anymore. I found it! Got a new job that I enjoy, working on projects that are filling up my every day life with joy! I manifested the life I want to have. I'm not there yet but I'm headed on that direction. I had to rewatch this video, cause I didn't remember it, but I'm glad I did
Take two things from this: 1) If you are unsure about what to do, go for tov (hebrew word for happiness + or exhilaration)-- tov is an expression of who you are at your core, contributes to people around you and aligns with what creation needs from you; 2) instead of asking why is this happening to me, ask why is this happening for me.
i believe he delived a classical "do what u r passionate about" thing which was O.K., BUT he is proposing in a way that all people know their passsion ! so for people who r still in search for their passion they just received an incomplete advice that didn't show them how to find their passion and didn't encourge them to hang on their imperfect jobs until things click ! he just told them you r not doing well in life unlike my daughter the dancer or son the pianist. P.s. many people excelled in more than one field in life which proves the multi-interests quality of majority of people.
For all of you talking about "cleaning the toiliets, working in shops, in the fast food joints and other jobs that could not be fulfilling for anyone but they are jobs that need to be done." Most of these jobs can be eliminated tomorrow by implementing existing solutions through good design, automation and decentralising production. And you know what? When your consciousness shifts from it's narrow view of the current system, and know how to live in line with nature and people, you will clean the toilet yourself :) So, do you still wanna follow your (original) dream ..?
chaser107 I agree. It seems that what we have been doing is increasing productivity through science and technology, but instead of using their benefits to work less and enjoy life more, we continue to shift these benefits to, and concentrate them in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals. There was a documentary on BBC some time ago about how most jobs will be automated away, and sooner than most people expect. I think a system where the benefits of automation are distributed among people that don't want to (or can't) work in the form of a "salary". Sort of like dividing up the value produced by robots, machines and software. The rest, who likes to work, also get a salary--higher than the ones that don't work to include their labour remuneration. Something similar to this will be required once machines and software do majority of work.
Na tym polega indywidualizm człowieka, że do tego samego zadania każdy może podejść inaczej i coś w sobie!!! przerobić. Nie daj się wpędzić w ciąg RÓB-MIEJ-BĄDŹ, odwróć kolej rzeczy w swym życiu.
I love this. I so want to quite my job as an attorney, but problem is I don’t know what my work is (I do love helping people and to be of service, but not sure where that would lead).
The work place is where I go to die each day. My job is to break big rocks in to smaller blocks, metaphorically. Still, my dreams and ambitions become further away because I must make an income. I die each day a little more.
Too much fluff. The message of being true to who you are is good, but could have been conveyed in less than 5 minutes. The talk is sorely lacking in substantive recommendations for how to actually achieve this goal, in spite of the natural law that most jobs are created by people with particular needs. Your aspirations for fulfillment are not part of the job requirements. Most fulfilling jobs are those which you create yourself... consulting is a great gig, if you can get someone to pay you for it.
Look around, see how many people leave comments - now at the views on this video compared to a music video, the world is our oyster, people like us succeed.
Listening to this as a programmer is pretty weird. Where do you develop? New libraries, new frameworks, new API's, new design patterns + mastering the ones that I already know. There's so much of that I could work 40 hours per day and it still would not be enough.
I can tell you my perspective also as a programmer. I heard this talk I think around 2011 and it got to me that being myself at work is equally important as doing the work itself. I mean by that I can bring more from be than just coding. To give you a little example I started to make the workplace more fun. It might sound silly or cliche but for instance bringing more genuine humor (not a corporate smalltalk BS) to technical calls with clients or on meetings helped us to relax atmosphere, build more trust and understanding. This is of course an example that could be difficult to understand without a broader context but the underline is that when you put emotional intelligence on top of technical skills everyone around you will benefit from it.
TEDx Poland is great. Whatever is the meaning of this talk? When I go to work, I set in front of a computer and type 8 hours, in a cubical. By the nature of the job, no one is allowed to waste time doing anything but workload. On Friday I receive a paycheck (there are no other people around me). I never got the meaning of the talk.
The bible says the same thing..."Whatever your hands find to do, do so with all your might". Another word I've heard from rabbis who know much more than I do, is the fact that in Hebrew the word work and your words worship are indistinguishable from one another. To work is to worship God. To serve one another is to worship God. Once we see things in this matter, it changes the way we work and operate in the world
I just quit my job without a back up plan. I don’t what will gonna happen for the next months. 😅 I have emergency funds worth of 6 months of my expenses though. 🤣 I know how to trade the stock market too. For short term, I want to be a full time investor. 🙏🏼❤️
He explained already it in his presentation., you clearly weren't paying enough attention ;) Anyway, "tov" is a Hebrew word meaning something in between "good" and "beautiful"; also "great", "wonderful", "lucky", etc.
Another one who is telling us to leave our jobs and follow our dreams. Sweet divine, who will do the jobs in the world like cleaning the toliets, working in shops, in the fast food joints and other jobs that could not be fullfilling for anyone but they are jobs that need to be done. We all know this stuff but we have to do what we have to do. Not everyone can just go off and follow their dreams. If only.
You are so right and often they happiest people are those who finish work, go home and dont take a load of paperwork home with them. So ya agree with you there. However most of us get caught in the trap of paying bills and raising children (raising children being the good part of that of course) So it is not about doing an unskilled job and hating it. It can be doing a job you have worked your ass off to get and you get it and find out yeah.. its okay... but now im trapped with a wage I need to live the life I have build with a house, kids, car etc.. and to go a different road now would mean putting out your family, not just you. Also if you are raising children alone through no fault of your own (the other person did not meet their responsibilty) well it is even harder. So ya this is all fine and dandy if you only have you to think of. BUT in the real world we have to think of more than ourselfs and also have to have a home to live in and bills paid. So yeah... easy said and all that. I do not work in a job that I hate, but I would like to try new things, travel more etc... but NOT at the expense of my sons education and life. Most people over the age of 35 are like this.
I hear what he is saying thanks, but to start your own bussiness you need money etc.. most of us would not have the money to start our own bussiness or to take the risk with the money we have and maybe risk our homes etc.. I would always have been someone who would learn from all jobs what I could and develop skills etc.. and I encourage my children to now do the same (young adults) however in todays world if you do not have the money to go do a degree (in Ireland this is so expensive) or know someone who knows someone.. or have money to start out on your own. Well you are kinda stuck where you are. You lose heart and your job just becomes your job. I work in an interesting job to do with Mental health, but to move forward is difficult, also of course age plays a part. Thanks for explaining, but believe me I get it. I feel lucky to have a job at the moment in Ireland so many dont. Just wanted to finish on a positive☺
As I said, sometimes the person who is to be admired is the one who thinks of their children and family first, who can not just walk away from a job because that job is what puts bread and butter on the table for their family. I agree that we should follow our dreams. But in most peoples reality it is not as simple as deciding not to do a job that they dont like anymore, or as simple as following their dreams. I would LOVE to go back to college to study but had sons to take care of (alone.. long story) I would love love love to travel, but at the moment cant. More important things to be taken care of like keeping a roof over me and my families head. I do not see my life as wasted. I think you have a very small minded view of this, your view, from your life experince. Life does nt always turn out the way we planned. The true hero makes the best of what he has and enjoys life to the full in spite of. A job does not define us.. its a job. SO much more to me than my job. Wasted life.. no.. I think you need to gain more life experince before making that comment. Best of luck to you, and if it makes you feel complete because of finding a job you like.. well too bad. Hope your life is enriched with people and experiences. Good luck to you.
6:40 "ale się dużo nauczyłem w pracy" powiedział sobie zadowolony pracownik McDonalda albo magazynier w biedronce. Amerykanie lubią widzieć tylko tą "podjaraną" stronę życia.
What if what aligns with the core of your being - i.e. what lights you up from inside; the truest expression of yourself - is not a skill that's needed by the world you live in at this moment?
light ya making money is so confined to certain things/services, just being alive doesn’t make any unless you somehow get people to pay you to be alive, and if you meet that person I’d like to meet them too.
razz P work on harder problems maybe? Add a new skill to your current knowledge that could possibly fix something you didn’t think could have been? Pick something big and really find where your holes are and then fill them and then fix that larger than logic problem
Ile radości, pogody ducha i mądrości życiowej emanuje z tego wykładu.
Dziękuję za to - motywuje do naśladowania.
Great advice on essentially being the person you want to be at your job, yet doesn't really tell you *how* to *quit* your job and live your truth if your work doesn't suit you. If you know your passion (as I do), you have to find a way to live it, and that may not be possible right away. Meanwhile, you still have bills to pay, etc. Personally, I'm an artist and musician soul at a corporate job that does *nothing* for me.. but I need the money so I can move and hopefully finally start to live my truth. There's absolutely nothing about what I currently do at my job that can satisfy my passion, so I must accept and tolerate my circumstances until I can change them. The way I see it, my boss uses me and I'm using my boss so that I can eventually break free from his "shackles" and do what I really want to do. I think this is the reality for most of us: aware that we're "sheep" caught up in a system, and doing what we can to survive until we can break out of "jail".
i reckon on a daily basis you play a lot of stadiums in your head
you read my mind bro
I think your comment hits the nail at the head. Any suggestions by other viewers on 'ideas' that address this situation that many people find themselves in?
@Mariyeen Acheege You beat me to it, Marijeen. I too was going to recommend Jordan Peterson.
It’s all rooted in fear or thinking out of lack rather than abundance. Once you find your passion your find your why. Bet on yourself everyday
He's right. I feel even more convinced to quit my job.
Awesome Perception of life. . . .what you strongly believe in your life becomes your reality. . .believe in unlimited Possibilities ! !
advertising has us chasing cars and cloth, working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we don't need - Fight club
true
+lalagirl211 so true
yeahhhhh, all for stupid things that will be useless in a few years.
lalagirl211 Whats sad is we dont know any other way of life. If I knew there was another way I'd go for it.
lalagirl211 for people we dont like
Love this! You are the important piece of whatever it is that you do. It's all about your perspective and how you see and feel about yourself. You bring something different to the work place. Have you ever met someone who you will never forget, a long time friend, a co worker, someone you talked to in the store? They were just being them, but they were exactly who you needed in your life at that time? How do you know that's not you to someone else? You've made an impact on people in your lifetime that you may never have realized. I want to make sure I'm the best me where ever I go or whatever I do because I'm bringing my tov into it.
I first found this talk a couple years ago. I agree with it even more now. I quit my Day Job (for which I lost my "passion") and started travelling full time. Flying to every country, recording my journey. So I can identify with John Scherer's message.
10 Million Miles Journey i wish i can quit my job to0.... do the things i want,, things that i really really really want to do... i'm a chef and ive lost my passion in cooking because i just let my self before that this will set me free (financially) but then im working on for my savings.that someday i can quit this. im just like dying everyday... going to work...im just like a robot doing things they want me to do... i wake up every morning that nothing excites me at all... i want to do my t0v but u just cant....
somehow this helps decrease my depression... thanks sir john....
Jerome Baculo Dimayuga
Are you stil al Chef
Jerome Baculo Dimayuga Just noticed your comment (I was in Japan for the last month, filming for my TH-cam channel). If you could quit your job as a chef, what type of job or life would excite you?
10 Million Miles Journey gxcct gggghsd
Although I love his way of seeing things, but I’ve tried it at my current job that I dread. You can’t help it when you work with assholes who favour other workers. As much as you’re trying to stay positive and learn, there’s always something wrong you did and your supervisor and his other team members drains you because they want you to work as the way they work. I just hate being controlled by someone rude. I don’t mind working in a team and under someone who is fair, I love the job. But it’s the people that makes my daily work difficult, when you stand up to a mean supervisor, he would do everything he can to make your day a little harder just because you hurt his lil ego. So, if the work drains you no matter what you’re trying to do to be successful without being affected in your environment, leave. Some things are just not worth it. I am resigning today and giving in my 2weeks notice, and I’m prepared for what ever comes. My sanity and my happiness is much more important right now. I’ll find another job.
He does not tell us you quit our jobs literally. This is only a catchy tittle. He tells us to change our attitude, to be 'you' at what you do. This may lead to change the job, but does not have to.
Hi, i have just done the transcript for people who might have problem with understanding. There are some missing words in the transcript because i am not a hero in english :D So enjoy;)
Ah, this is great, Vítám***. This is kind a high, I think trim the master volume down. Good. This has been a great experience for me living in Poland for the last three years, I have lived in Krakow I love your city, I love the people, I love Poland, thank you it’s a great place. I go back to Seatle where I have my office and Seatle people say “John what do you do in Poland?” and I say “you’ve never been there have you?”. Now the certain things that are different about Poland and then in America as you might go. We were at end of one of our three and half day leadership development seminars, and a participant came up at the end, and I said how was this for you? He said [nížly]. And I turned to my colleague,it was my first week in Poland, and I turned to my colleague and said dear what is that mean? He said not bad. And I said not bad?? Jeasus three and a half days and he says no.. Then he said the guy just told you that you changed his life! And I said ha ha, and I said why didn’t he tell me? He said he did, he told you it was not bad, he said John this is Poland, this is Poland. So anyway it’s been a wonderful, wonderful time here. I wanna talk with you about something dear to my heart, and it goes like this. How to turn your workplace your job into experience personal development. You know what the midlife crisis is, right? A midlife crisis is when you get to the top rung on your ladder and you realize that you leaned it against the wrong wall.
So I am gonna take I am gonna ** everything in next eighteen, now sixteen minutes, to help to lean your ledder against the right wall. Dobže? Okay. Now, nýžly. Now some of you that already passed your midlife crisis I have antoher saying for you and this it’s never too late to become what you might have been. Ok? So, here we go. Gonna go fast. Where do you spend your most awake time? What’s the answer? Work. So maybe, some of your students, but when I asked the question, how many of you spend eight hours a day at work? Let’s say you work, raise your hand eight hours a day, ok, nine hours a day, ten hours a day, come on eleven, come on twelve, see ok, I r** my case. You work more than you sleep. You spend more time at work awake than anywhere else in your life. So the workplace is an extremely important part in your life. Now I ask people, now I am gonna ask you. As a human being are you a finished product or are you work in progress? What would your answer be? Work in progress. Everybody says that. Ok, where do you do your progressing, where do you do your developing? And people talk about seminars, and they talk about their religious institution, reading books and so for, and I ask what about a workplace? And they go workplace? What has that got to do with, you know, progressing. So this is my mission in life really, is to help people to turn workplace into a place where they can grow up and develop. In America this is kind of the way by seeing many people, its like I have a life and I have work, how to these two relates each other? Some people have it, oh lets see this is a laser here? Yeah, cool. So some people have a life and the work and they are trying put them together in some equal fashion. Other people say you know what my life, I don’t think so *** performing, this way, I’ve got lot of life and my work is a part of my life, but it’s not my whole life. This is what I experience in Poland. I experience that yeah? I was given up a talk recently in Wroclaw and I young man came up to me and he said you know my mother, he is a photographer, and he said my mother said why are you wasting the education we gave you, why don’t you get a real job? And because, he said my mother is from the old generation in Poland where the important thing is have a job, it doesn’t matter what the job is, doesn’t matter if the job fits you or not, doesn’t matter if it has anything to do with what you really wanna do. You have got a job, keep the job, for Pete sake why don’t you go to get a job, so you’ll have a job. I’ll tell you a minute, I am gonna educate you, how many of you have a job? Ok, in a minute I am gonna educate you to quit your job so stand by. Now, don’t get nervous its ok. This is what I notice a lot in Poland. People actually draw, build a wall between their life and their workplace. My friend’s told me that in the old days, your family system, your social, your friends were completely separate from work. They said you can work beside someone for years and not know really the name of their sp***, or they have children, any problems going on in their life. This is completely separate. So what I am saying you can’t separate, how can you separate your life from your work? You are a human being in both of those places. So I have a suggestion for you here. Oh, you can’t see that. It’s a really cool picture but you can’t see it. Its not what you made today when you go to work, its not just what you made, but what do you’ve been made into. Its not just what you produced for the company, but what in beeng produced in you while you producing that for the company. Or like this. Its not just what happened today at work but what is happening inside you while all that stuff is happening at work. Two people go to work side by side, one person goes home at the end of the day and says oh my God what a disaster what a I. nnn… The other person working right beside him goes home and says Man, I really learned a lot, this is incredible.
So everyone gets the experience, some get the lesson, my favorite quote from T. S. Eliot I am gonna rip through some of this. I think we show up with assignment with three parts. Discover who we are, express it into the world in such a way that makes create a difference. Now, I am gonna suggest you turn your job, your workplace into a classroom or a Dojo, I do little Aikido, its like place where you can practice being who you are, why not. Your faculty is waiting for you every day, the faculty are those idiots you have to work with. You know in fact the worse person there is your most important teacher, but that’s the advanced class, ok? The curriculum is all th** that happens to you all day long, I know the word in Polish but I am not supposed they told me not to say it. But its all the stuff that happens to you during the day, that’t your curriculum. And you know what the grades accept what happens inside your body when you go home at the and of the day, that’s how you measure what happenes in work, and there is a final exam butthen its too late. A job, by the way the word job comes from the old English word gobbe. Which means a loop of something. So in the old days you took stuff from here and you moved it over here. How many loop you got payed, but how many loops or gobbes you move from here to here, so in, out, in out, today in basket, out basket, in basket, out basket, all day every day, no matter where you are whatever matter level you take stuff in you move it over here. That’s a job. Personally I don’t want to have a job. If that’s a job I don’t want one, ok? I recommend that you ** have a job, but you look for a work. What is your work? What is the work that you are here for? Work comes from the Greek word for erg which I think, I am looking at my physics man here, I think is how many calories is to take to move one gram one centimeter, if I memor* my physics right. One o one. Is that close enough? Yeah, nýžly. So work switch from erg to work in the old german which that become the word work. So work is energy with a direction. Its purpose for energy. So personally I think you should quit your job and find your work. Ok? Its very important seriously. Very important thing to do.
Now, I wanna tell a story about this really quickly. I was doing an ex** seminar for a woman who ** big corporation in Seattle and her team of vice presidents. Her name was Sherley, behind your back they called her Dragon Lady. Ok? And so I dispoint a seminar she says John this is all sweet and wonderful but what has this got to do with leadership and running this organization. I said well, ok, what would you do with your life if you didn’t have to come to work every day? She said I’d go home and play with my grandchildren. I said ok. Let’s go with that. And I said one of the vice president there, would you come up with the easle* and take some notes? And I said tell us what is this about your grandchildren? She said well first of all I have to get the house ready. What is that mean? Well I wanna make sure it is safe, I wanna make sure that there is some interesting things there for them to do, wanna make sure to have enough food and things to do and then I have to get myself ready, I gotta have a right attitude, what is that, well I got be ready I gotta show them how much I care about them and so for it. And all this is get written down. Ok, the kids are coming what do you do? Well I get down on my knees great them at the front door, on your knees? Why? Well, I want them to know I wanna meet them at their own level and so forth. What do you do during the day? Well I just follow them around and hope they are okey and if I get I get a chance to teach them something, you know, I’ll do it. And all this is get written down. Then she says good bye to them at the door. Now at the end of the story she is kind a quiet, little bit emotional, and I said what’s going on? She said well this is very sweet, she said, but I don’t see what it has to do with leadership.
So I got my course, I’m consultor, right? So I am scared after death if there is not gonna be any connection between*** she’s not gonna find it, but I looked at the flipchart , and I said well just look at this, and look at that and tell me what you see and she read it, and I said maybe this is another description of you as a leader of this organization. And she said Moj bože, no she said oh my God she said. She said my God, she said do you mean that I can bring the grandmother to work? And all of the vice presidents were going, oh God yes, oh please, oh please!!! You know and so, it was really interesting. I came back three months later to do some follow up and the receptionist at the front desk **levels** she said John come here, she said grandma is in the building. So it was great. So the question I have for you is who is that who lives in you that you need to bring to work?
20.1.2014
Now we gonna go, do some more. This is what I called the diferred life plan. This is the default plan that we were all taught in America I am convinced you were taught this here. You work really hard now, you do whatever you have to do in order to have what you need to have, then as soon as you have enough of that whatever it is money or st*** or the trophy, you know all the toys, whatever you need, as soon as you have enough of that, then and only then you get to be happy, be peace, be, you know, relaxed, whatever it is. Now there is one very small problem with this formula. It doesn’t work. Why? Because you never have enough. If I ask you how much money do you need what’s the answer gonna be? A little more than I have now. I mean, everybody says that. So you can never have enough, if you make your being happy relaxed or peace cont* of anything you’ll never get there. Sales people understand this. Sales people understand this. They make the sale how do they feel? Nýžly, right? No, dobže, bardzodobže, fantastičně, zaje fajně. Now, I’ve just used all my polish vocabulary I have now, and how long does that feeling last? Till the next phone call hm? And then its going again. I am proposing something extremely radical which is to turn the whole thing around and let what you do be an expression of who you are and then you get feedback from the world in form of money and, but who cares? Because you are starting from a place, that what you are doing is an expression of who you are. Dobže? Ok? Rozumieš? Ok, cool. Now I wanna talk about this word right here, TOV.
I am gonna go back to my roots in the Creation story in the book of Genesis, ok? Now the native amrican story tell us in America, we are always saying that. I don’t know is the story happened exactly the same this way, but the story is true. So I am almost positive that didn’t exactly happened this way but the story is true. At one point it says the Lord created the oceans and then looked and saw that it was good. Must be some Lutherans in the room here, so anyway. So that’s a terrible translation for that word, the word is tov in Hebrew, Mazltov, lots of tov, a better translation is that the Lord created the oceans and looked and said yee, yes, that’s what I’m talking about, that’s what I’m talking about, yeah, yeah. That’s a piece of me out there in the world, where you can see it. You wanna learn something about me? Look at my ocean. That’s tov.
My daughter,** this way, oh you can’t see my daughter Ema, oh that’s so sad. My daughter Ema is twenty-five ye.. twenty-three, she’s going to school in Paris, France, studying theatre dance and a voice, and ah, she started dancing, when she was, you know, could walk, and if Ema would dancing here, she would not be dancing to impress you, she would not be dancing to get feedback, she’d be dancing because she is Ema. And Ema dances. You get Ema, you get a dancer. That’s it. The other day on Skype, she said dad if I break a legend can’t dance, she said I don’t know what I am gonna do, she said this is who I am. You get Ema, you get a dancer.
My son Eica, wanna get a picture of Eica, no? No, too bad. Oh, there he is. My son Eica is now twenty five, plays piano and trombone classical jazz and so forth. And I came in this little house that we had, little tiny house, big grand piano fill the whole living room and Eica was playing the rock man enough piece ok, the whole house was shaking, you know little tiny house, big grand piano, and I stood at the back door, and I just let the music just wash over me. And I stood there and I had this insight, I could picture Eica at the piano and then I realized that the house was not shaking with the piano, the house was not shaking with the rock man enough, the house was shaking with Eica. Eica was filling the house, the grand piano just sits there until Eica puts his fingers on the keyboard, the rock man enough its dots on a piece of paper until he reads it and interprets it through who he is and puts his hands on keybord and then the music happens. You are in job somewhere, workplace somewhere, your name is in box of on an organization chart, that’s just your piano, and your job assignment is just a dots, its rock mana enough, its just dots on piece of paper until you put your hands on the keyboard and then you start to play. If you leave another name goes into that box, the music will be different. The music is your music. Has nothing to do with the job, its you interpreting that music into the world.
So my suggestion is, when you don’t know what to do go for tov, go for tov, tov is what you, is when what you’re doing is an full expression of who you are at the core of your being in such a way that contributes to other people around you and it is alignment with what life, what creation needs from you. So every day that you go to work, just ask yourself what is the lesson here? What is this for me? Instead of saying what a wonder if its happened to me, just turn it slightly, and say I wonder if its happening for me, I wonder its might be happening for me. So, thank you so much for the chance to be with you I highly recommend going for tov, its an extraordinary way to live, you get Ema, you get a dancer, you get me , you get this, ok? Thank you very much.
Despite I understand every bit of what he says, I highly admire your effort. People like you are the pride of humanity.
I quit my job because i hated what i was doing and where i was in my life
SCNDL3SS96 and now
Me too
I can’t quit because my visa is tied to my job. Every morning I am trying to find excuses not going to work. Sometimes I meditate to change the mindset; sometimes it’s just hard
James Orman
Thank you! I’m actually running a startup on the side.
@@stephenw4720 I totally ubderstand, I too look for reasons to not be at work all the time. I hope that one day we find a job that we like and brings us peace and happiness.
It would be worth every employer and every employee watching this short video over coffee some morning at work, sooner rather than later.
Thank you John for your inspiring talk.
Johnnie lawson
When you work at a place that is run by selfish bosses you learn quickly what not to do. Learning goes both way, you can learn what to do, and also learn what not to do, at the end of the day they both attribute to your personal growth. When a boss/company lies to people that's when you bail. Stop bending over for a paycheck, if they don't do you any favors why do them favors?
I agree. In fact, I agree so much, that I see through the BS way too quickly at every job. This is why its hard for me to keep one. I get good jobs, all kinds of different things..
But after that 90 days companies behave toward you like they own you. Like you must walk and talk like them otherwise you'll be pariah. Either you quit because they're all the same or youre totally different.... Either way, my experience with jobs is that its all about control. If they cant completely control you, youll never get promoted.
Anyway, my small 2 cents. Total and complete control seems to be the norm. Micromanging at its max. No one is trusted to have their own brains a skill to accomplish anything. Even when you have experience they say youre not worth what you ask because it wasnt experience within their company.
Work feels more and more like slavery no matter where I go.
@@MissLovely42 you said some very wise impressive things. And very provable things also. I know that on some job environments the elementary ABCs of a job are very important but as you said about control they focus on whether or not you crossed every tee and dotted every eye and cute and if you haven't that's an issue never mind that ABC is the most important thing to take care of they want like you said total control for mindless meaningless reasons to their own detriment you just have to shake your head and laugh to keep from crying. Keep up your good analyzation skills
Here's the lesson:
"If you don't like your job, learn how to love it instead! Make your work an extension of yourself!"
His examples of his kids being a dancer and a pianist and that's who they are, that's just wonderful. Tell me, how does that translate to their occupation? Does she dance around deadlines at work? Does he type 300 words per minute? Do they have careers? If they do, do they even like them?
I'll give him credit for saying success does not equal happiness. At some point, the money just doesn't matter if you're miserable. There is a level of income where you need to survive, then there is a level where you are comfortable and can pay the bills with extra money in your pocket, and after that it's really irrelevant other than you can have more expensive hobbies and "nicer" things. I think most people will figure this out early in their careers.
I also enjoyed the analogy of a midlife crisis. It really is like climbing to the top of a ladder against the wrong building.
Regardless, it's not really good advice yet so many people gobble this stuff up and pretend that they got something out of it. Listen, if you have a shitty job then you have to put yourself out there and try to get a job somewhere else. If you have a great job and you're still not happy, maybe you need to try a different career path. Maybe you need to be in business with yourself and be your own boss. The one thing these people don't tell you is that most people have no clue what they want to do and no magic seminar is going to put it in perspective, you have to be willing to take a chance to make it happen. You may have to work in many different roles at many different companies until you find something that you really enjoy, or maybe you won't ever enjoy working for someone else. Is it easy to do these things? No. Is it practical? Financially, probably not. Is there risk involved? Absolutely, but there really are no alternatives. You either go for it and succeed (or fail and try again), or you never go for it and stay miserable.
+Leif Jensen I'd watch your video \m/
beautiful...
That is precisely what I got from this.
Hell yea dude! Preach!
koopaGG or just quit it
John, thank you with all my heart...
I love Polish people, I loved Poland and I loved being in Krakow ....
Chip Conley, founder of the Joie de Vivre hotel group in the SF Bay Area talked about jobs. He equates a job with people who bring their body to the place of work. A bus driver is doing a job: he brings his body to the bus depot, gets on a bus and just drives his/her route. Next up is a career. That's when you bring your body and your mind to the place of work. A lawyer, a doctor, an accountant. You can't just bring your body and slum it. But, there's a higher level. That is a calling. A calling is where you bring your body, your mind, and your soul. Michelangelo is willing to lie on a scaffolding to paint the Sistine Chapel because he can't conceive of doing anything else. Madison Bumgarner's role as a pitcher is his career. Buster Posey's role as a catcher is a calling. The first violinist of an orchestra has a career. The soloist playing a violin concerto has a calling. Find your calling.
John Scherer has a lovely manner. Really enjoyed his relaxed style. There's nothing all that new in what he says, but he says it beautifully and with heart.
Also, even if this is common knowledge, there are still a great many people out there who don't enjoy their working lives - they prob need all the inspiration they can get.
It'd be nice to hear comments from people who have either improved their existing jobs (like the Dragon Lady) or made a total change.
I am astounded at the number of people in this comments section who think that this speaker was actually advocating that we LITERALLY quit our jobs. He was just saying to turn your current job into a vehicle for your personal expression through your work.
probably the friendliest audience I've seen in a ted talk
Inspirational! This communicates something about being human that is very deep and hard to put into words. Beautiful, many thanks.
We are only slaves to our mind set. Find yourself, be yourself, be free.
Samantha Derrick >>> Totally agree. Have seen people´s hair and nails fall off gradually because of stress and unhealthy jobenvironment, and even take nervemedicine to be able to endure to go to work...
you was in panathinaikos?
How do I apply this in my life? I am a nurse and everyday of my life I try to be the best that I can be but everyday my job is pushing me to the brink of depression because of the too much pressure being put on our shoulders. We nurses get all the shit whenever some asshole want to change something how they operate their business. Health Care is now managed by businessmen.
Myra San Jose Are there any opportunities to work in non-profit nursing? Typically the people have hearts in the non-profit sector. Good luck, and make that change because depression sucks!
+Myra San Jose nurses are some of the most awesome people on the planet. ...true story. Thank you.
What about working in preventative care?
What about starting your own clinic with some doctors? People who give a shit about helping sick people not business or money or whatever your bosses care about?
What about having this chat with the other nurses and doctors and other colleagues and together you work something out..? E.g. you go to your boss or CEO or change something at work to make it more manageable.. Is work going to continue the way it is indefinitely if you don't change something about it??
Myra San Jose Check out a site here called Patriot Nurse. She has a ton of complaints about nursing.
Myra San Jose
Lol!! I feel yah...😣
I know exactly what you mean John. I am working as a carer in a care home for old people with dementia and this job is very demanding and challenging, but also often very rewarding. And I learn every day something not only about these people but about myself.
15:00 Wow I was totally reminded of Louie Giglio when he was speaking. Both this gentleman and Giglio are great to hear speak, wise people.
Shalom. And then Yehovah Tzevahot made us and He said Tov, Tov! Best speach and advice. You had me in tears. A speak the Aaronic blessing over you and your family. In Yeshua's Name. Amen. From South Africa
This video is the best career advice , I have got till date.
Brilliant stuff been getting deeper into this journey for years and getting others on it - magic to see your transformation passion - rock on!!
So wonderfully delivered... you changed my life ♥️
Brilliant. I live like this every day. Thanks for defining my existence so well, and encouraging others to join this way of life!
IM GOING FOR TOV! THANKS FOR THIS AMAZING TALK! VERY REALISTIC! ROOF OVER MY HEAD, AND FOOD ON THE TABLE, BUT AFTER QUITTING MY JOB I'M READY TO MAKE MY LIFE TOV!
SO! HOW'S THE PROJECT GOING? STILL LOOKING FOR TOV?
@@shawarmageddonit Not looking anymore. I found it! Got a new job that I enjoy, working on projects that are filling up my every day life with joy! I manifested the life I want to have. I'm not there yet but I'm headed on that direction. I had to rewatch this video, cause I didn't remember it, but I'm glad I did
Take two things from this: 1) If you are unsure about what to do, go for tov (hebrew word for happiness + or exhilaration)-- tov is an expression of who you are at your core, contributes to people around you and aligns with what creation needs from you; 2) instead of asking why is this happening to me, ask why is this happening for me.
i believe he delived a classical "do what u r passionate about" thing which was O.K., BUT he is proposing in a way that all people know their passsion !
so for people who r still in search for their passion they just received an incomplete advice that didn't show them how to find their passion and didn't encourge them to hang on their imperfect jobs until things click !
he just told them you r not doing well in life unlike my daughter the dancer or son the pianist.
P.s. many people excelled in more than one field in life which proves the multi-interests quality of majority of people.
If everybody quit their job to follow their passion we would live in a world filled with a vast surplus of DJs, Video bloggers, and sports athletes.
and poker players
you forgot guitar players....
and...WE DO LIVE IN THAT WORLD
Jason Wisecat I am a Guitar Player :/
Ridiculous. I quit my job, started my own consulting business, did well, quit that, now taking my time to learn clothing design and fashion.
and visionaries, inovators, inventors!!!
So, so enjoyable. Love the message and the messenger, and they are the same.
Completely new point of view that nobody described before, thanks
he's catering to his audience... I think he did a great job!
You know you're getting great advice when somebody tells you to quit your job.
This guy will be splitting the atom any day now.
Thumbs Up. Haha
Samantha Derrick They have a place where you will find happiness. It is called a mental institution. You will have no stress at all there.
For all of you talking about "cleaning the toiliets, working in shops, in the fast food joints and other jobs that could not be fulfilling for anyone but they are jobs that need to be done." Most of these jobs can be eliminated tomorrow by implementing existing solutions through good design, automation and decentralising production. And you know what? When your consciousness shifts from it's narrow view of the current system, and know how to live in line with nature and people, you will clean the toilet yourself :) So, do you still wanna follow your (original) dream ..?
chaser107 I agree. It seems that what we have been doing is increasing productivity through science and technology, but instead of using their benefits to work less and enjoy life more, we continue to shift these benefits to, and concentrate them in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals. There was a documentary on BBC some time ago about how most jobs will be automated away, and sooner than most people expect. I think a system where the benefits of automation are distributed among people that don't want to (or can't) work in the form of a "salary". Sort of like dividing up the value produced by robots, machines and software. The rest, who likes to work, also get a salary--higher than the ones that don't work to include their labour remuneration. Something similar to this will be required once machines and software do majority of work.
+10 Millidfon Mfiles Journey n
So, don't try to improve your situation, just learn to enjoy it. Or Don't worry, be happy. Thanks. That makes it all better.
Na tym polega indywidualizm człowieka, że do tego samego zadania każdy może podejść inaczej i coś w sobie!!! przerobić. Nie daj się wpędzić w ciąg RÓB-MIEJ-BĄDŹ, odwróć kolej rzeczy w swym życiu.
Great perspective to look at your daily duties!Thank you!
Yes! I got so nervous when he started speaking Polish. Rosetta stone will have to wait.
I love this. I so want to quite my job as an attorney, but problem is I don’t know what my work is (I do love helping people and to be of service, but not sure where that would lead).
hey how u doing?
Great concept. I agree work should be an enjoyable environment. If it is not, take steps to make it enjoyable. I want to hear YOUR music.
Yess I needed it very very much to make a move from the place that im now ! thank You
The work place is where I go to die each day. My job is to break big rocks in to smaller blocks, metaphorically. Still, my dreams and ambitions become further away because I must make an income.
I die each day a little more.
Stay strong Pete. You can also do small steps every day to change your job, your quality of thinking and attitude.
You have to save and invest your income to get out of that jail of yours. Good luck! 😁
Learn to be the best at what you're currently doing and your job will change as you do!
Thank you sir!! Outstanding!!
This was wonderful to watch. The message rang true!
Great video on finding happiness and fulfilment in your work
thank you for this video!
thank you- I've been to Seattle so I'm halfway there
Too much fluff. The message of being true to who you are is good, but could have been conveyed in less than 5 minutes. The talk is sorely lacking in substantive recommendations for how to actually achieve this goal, in spite of the natural law that most jobs are created by people with particular needs. Your aspirations for fulfillment are not part of the job requirements. Most fulfilling jobs are those which you create yourself... consulting is a great gig, if you can get someone to pay you for it.
lol the Polish audience has a good sense of humor and is very energetic it's cute.
Thank you. I think I do some of this already. I'll just have to look and see how I can change my thinking to make this work more for me.
great talk John!
Love it, highly recommended ! Thanks for sharing :)
Look around, see how many people leave comments - now at the views on this video compared to a music video, the world is our oyster, people like us succeed.
That's amazing Mr Scherer
Love this talk!
People we must understand that Freedom is Work. (a mechanical principle)
This is an amazing presentation!
Listening to this as a programmer is pretty weird. Where do you develop? New libraries, new frameworks, new API's, new design patterns + mastering the ones that I already know. There's so much of that I could work 40 hours per day and it still would not be enough.
I can tell you my perspective also as a programmer. I heard this talk I think around 2011 and it got to me that being myself at work is equally important as doing the work itself. I mean by that I can bring more from be than just coding. To give you a little example I started to make the workplace more fun. It might sound silly or cliche but for instance bringing more genuine humor (not a corporate smalltalk BS) to technical calls with clients or on meetings helped us to relax atmosphere, build more trust and understanding. This is of course an example that could be difficult to understand without a broader context but the underline is that when you put emotional intelligence on top of technical skills everyone around you will benefit from it.
oh my god this is great thank you
Semantics. So his point is, if you don't like your job, you need to adjust your bad attitude. Hey - problem solved!
Amazing Work - ergo!!!
I watch TED because of talks like this.
Well done Mr Scherer! Very well :))
TEDx Poland is great. Whatever is the meaning of this talk? When I go to work, I set in front of a computer and type 8 hours, in a cubical. By the nature of the job, no one is allowed to waste time doing anything but workload. On Friday I receive a paycheck (there are no other people around me). I never got the meaning of the talk.
great... bardzo dobrze ...Than You..... Janusz ....Australia
Great words, really inspiring.
cudownie
GOD YOU ARE Beautiful
The bible says the same thing..."Whatever your hands find to do, do so with all your might".
Another word I've heard from rabbis who know much more than I do, is the fact that in Hebrew the word work and your words worship are indistinguishable from one another. To work is to worship God. To serve one another is to worship God. Once we see things in this matter, it changes the way we work and operate in the world
Thank you!
Amazing..simple...eye opener.. Thanks dear 🙏
I have two days to figure out if I want to stay or quit my job.
did u stay?
did u quit?
GIVE ME AN UPDATE ON YOUR LIFE. NOW.
+Priscilla Varela yeah I had to stay, or I won't have any income. too bad I'm still not happy.
sorry bro. don't give up.
Thanks. GREAT IDEAS!
Wonderful......
What if you don’t have a particular passion or talent and what you’re into constantly changes?
I just quit my job without a back up plan. I don’t what will gonna happen for the next months. 😅
I have emergency funds worth of 6 months of my expenses though. 🤣
I know how to trade the stock market too. For short term, I want to be a full time investor. 🙏🏼❤️
love this one!
Thank you so much
impressive talk!
fantastic!
He explained already it in his presentation., you clearly weren't paying enough attention ;)
Anyway, "tov" is a Hebrew word meaning something in between "good" and "beautiful"; also "great", "wonderful", "lucky", etc.
Loved it. Thanks
More than nieźle!
If people find this helpful, I highly recommend you to research Joseph Campbell.
Another one who is telling us to leave our jobs and follow our dreams. Sweet divine, who will do the jobs in the world like cleaning the toliets, working in shops, in the fast food joints and other jobs that could not be fullfilling for anyone but they are jobs that need to be done. We all know this stuff but we have to do what we have to do. Not everyone can just go off and follow their dreams. If only.
You are so right and often they happiest people are those who finish work, go home and dont take a load of paperwork home with them. So ya agree with you there. However most of us get caught in the trap of paying bills and raising children (raising children being the good part of that of course) So it is not about doing an unskilled job and hating it. It can be doing a job you have worked your ass off to get and you get it and find out yeah.. its okay... but now im trapped with a wage I need to live the life I have build with a house, kids, car etc.. and to go a different road now would mean putting out your family, not just you. Also if you are raising children alone through no fault of your own (the other person did not meet their responsibilty) well it is even harder. So ya this is all fine and dandy if you only have you to think of. BUT in the real world we have to think of more than ourselfs and also have to have a home to live in and bills paid. So yeah... easy said and all that. I do not work in a job that I hate, but I would like to try new things, travel more etc... but NOT at the expense of my sons education and life. Most people over the age of 35 are like this.
I hear what he is saying thanks, but to start your own bussiness you need money etc.. most of us would not have the money to start our own bussiness or to take the risk with the money we have and maybe risk our homes etc.. I would always have been someone who would learn from all jobs what I could and develop skills etc.. and I encourage my children to now do the same (young adults) however in todays world if you do not have the money to go do a degree (in Ireland this is so expensive) or know someone who knows someone.. or have money to start out on your own. Well you are kinda stuck where you are. You lose heart and your job just becomes your job. I work in an interesting job to do with Mental health, but to move forward is difficult, also of course age plays a part. Thanks for explaining, but believe me I get it. I feel lucky to have a job at the moment in Ireland so many dont. Just wanted to finish on a positive☺
Tara Love “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford
Well done. Great success story.
As I said, sometimes the person who is to be admired is the one who thinks of their children and family first, who can not just walk away from a job because that job is what puts bread and butter on the table for their family. I agree that we should follow our dreams. But in most peoples reality it is not as simple as deciding not to do a job that they dont like anymore, or as simple as following their dreams. I would LOVE to go back to college to study but had sons to take care of (alone.. long story) I would love love love to travel, but at the moment cant. More important things to be taken care of like keeping a roof over me and my families head. I do not see my life as wasted. I think you have a very small minded view of this, your view, from your life experince. Life does nt always turn out the way we planned. The true hero makes the best of what he has and enjoys life to the full in spite of. A job does not define us.. its a job. SO much more to me than my job. Wasted life.. no.. I think you need to gain more life experince before making that comment. Best of luck to you, and if it makes you feel complete because of finding a job you like.. well too bad. Hope your life is enriched with people and experiences. Good luck to you.
13:47 Meaning full pic.
Act yourself, Be yourself
6:40 "ale się dużo nauczyłem w pracy" powiedział sobie zadowolony pracownik McDonalda albo magazynier w biedronce. Amerykanie lubią widzieć tylko tą "podjaraną" stronę życia.
It's true when he said "it does not work...." lol
Excellent speaker. Mazel tov ;)
Fast forward to 17:00 for the jist of the talk.
What if what aligns with the core of your being - i.e. what lights you up from inside; the truest expression of yourself - is not a skill that's needed by the world you live in at this moment?
light ya making money is so confined to certain things/services, just being alive doesn’t make any unless you somehow get people to pay you to be alive, and if you meet that person I’d like to meet them too.
Find a job you love and you'll never have to work again :)
wise words
Absolute empty talk!! Not sure anything was said that is not already known..
So good
This sounds like being in artist. Expressing yourself weather through painting, or music. But how can one express yourself in IT, where logic is king?
razz P work on harder problems maybe? Add a new skill to your current knowledge that could possibly fix something you didn’t think could have been? Pick something big and really find where your holes are and then fill them and then fix that larger than logic problem