Simon Sinek: How to Find Your WHY (Exclusive Live Exercise With Jake)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we revisit an incredible conversation with Simon Sinek, where he dives into the power of asking "why" and how it can shape our personal and professional lives. Simon shares insightful strategies for connecting better with people, emphasising the importance of vulnerability and honesty, even when talking about personal challenges.
Listen is as Simon’s wisdom on finding your authentic voice provides invaluable guidance for anyone looking to lead with clarity, purpose and authenticity.
In an EXCLUSIVE clip, Simon spent time helping Jake find his 'why'. It is a truly fascinating insight into the process of discovering one's purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | If there's one thing that myself and Damien have learned from years of hosting high performance, |
| 0:04.4 | it's that habits are the building block to where you really want to go. |
| 0:08.0 | And we're delighted to be here to help. |
| 0:10.1 | Right now, if you head to the high performance app, you can use our Habits Reminder feature. |
| 0:14.4 | Get inspired by watching a clip. |
| 0:15.9 | Hit the bell icon and you can set your own personal habit reminder to remember the thing that really impacted you. |
| 0:22.6 | Check out habit reminders now on the high performance app. |
| 0:27.4 | I have a vision of a world that does not yet exist in which the vast majority of people wake up |
| 0:31.5 | every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are, and the day fulfilled by the work |
| 0:35.4 | that they do. The experiences you had growing up make you who you are, make who I am your why is fully formed by your mid till 18s and it doesn't |
| 0:43.0 | change for the rest of your life every year the goal is that that if I were to get it by a bus I can say |
| 0:48.5 | with pride that the work will continue because it has to because it must because the vision is |
| 0:52.9 | bigger than all of us. |
| 1:00.1 | Today we welcome bestselling 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 |
| 1:04.7 | episodes ever. Today we've also added an exclusive extra clip just for you where Simon takes |
| 1:10.2 | me through an exercise |
| 1:11.5 | to find my own why. This was a cool episode, Damien. It was brilliant, Jake, and that exercise |
| 1:17.2 | that he did with you was really quite special. I think everyone that follows Simon's works |
| 1:21.9 | knows about the importance of asking why, but he takes us through how to go about discovering |
| 1:26.9 | it, and that was invaluable. |
| 1:28.7 | I also love the bit where he goes into detail about how it can connect better with people. |
| 1:33.3 | And then finally, I thought he was really vulnerable talking about some of his own challenges |
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