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The High Performance Podcast · 2025-03-20 · 73 min · 15,522 words

Simon Sinek: How to Find Your WHY (Exclusive Live Exercise With Jake)

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Hey, it's a massive week for high performance, and we have a special bonus episode dropping this Friday with Richard Hammond. Make sure you hit follow. I have a vision of a world that does not yet exist in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are, and the day fulfilled by the work that they do. The experiences you had growing up make you who you are, make me who I am. Your why is fully formed by your mid to late teens, and it doesn't change for the rest of your life. Every year, the goal is that But if I were to get hit by a bus. I can say with pride that

The work will continue. Because it has to, because it must, because the vision is bigger than all of us. Today we welcome best selling author and thinker Simon Sinek to the show, one of the most requested people ever from our high performance audience and actually one of the top performing episodes. Ever. Today we've also added an exclusive extra clip just for you, where Simon takes me through an exercise to find my own why. This was a cool episode, Damien.

It was brilliant, Jake, and that exercise that he did with you was Really quite special. I think everyone that follows Simon's works knows about the importance of asking why, but he takes us through how to go about discovering it. And that was invaluable. I also love the bit where he goes into detail about how we can connect better with people. And then finally I thought he was really vulnerable talking about some of his own challenges and how he's faced them. You're absolutely right. Look, you're about to hear from

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