Find Your Purpose in Life

In this video, I explain how you can find what I call your "life's task", discover your purpose, and think deeply about your past.

Robert Greene is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction, The 50th Law, Mastery, The Laws of Human Nature, and The Daily Laws.

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[odysseynoone]

This is why Robert is a legend. I've never heard anyone approach the concept of purpose in such a deep, complete, and practical manner. Social media is the deadliest counterforce in our path to self-discovery. We unconsciously feel the pressure to imitate those who we perceive successful thinking that is the only path to power. We force ourselves to fit into the trends of the time and become so impatient and afraid to start from the bottom, to allow ourselves to freely experiment. As Musashi said, “You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.” Ignore everyone and find your own unique path to the top of the mountain.

[davidcantu]

Robert, I’m 20 years old and I’m from Mexico.

When I was 15 years old I had been a terrible student all my life, I had been expelled from 5 different schools, I was a really active marihuana smoker and alcohol consumer, and I used to be involved in street fights. My first serious touch with a book was at that age, and was with one of yours. I loved it. It give me an engagement with knowledge as I had never felt before, it make me see knowledge not as an obligation but as a world full of wonders. You aroused my curiosity. I read all of your books at the time I was 15 years old 3 times each. It was the perfect medicine for the right patient. At the time I graduated from High School I graduated with on of the Highest GPA’s, I received the 1st place award in 5 Models of the United Nations, I became a Mason, and I had the habit of reading 1 book per week. A Year ago, I decided to Migrate to the United States leaving everything I had to pursue my dreams. I pay my rent, transportation, school, food, all of my expenses. I’m currently studying at a Community college in California with a 4.0 GPA majoring in Biotechnology with the dream of Transferring to UC Berkeley. No one had been as influential as you to helped me found my Life Task. I will write a Theory that I’m developing about the Progress of Human Civilization and the installment of a Transnational Government, and I will create my own company using CRISPR technology and gene editing to help solve Climate Change. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making me want to live a life of adventure and service for Mankind. In others words; for teaching me the Art of Living.

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well” - Alexander The Great.

-With affection, your friend David Cantu.

[UdayKhandelwal]

Summary:
1. Know thy self : Pay attention to what you like and what you don’t
2. Let it come from inside you and not what other people say.
3. Pay attention to the details
4. Try things out

[nitirajdaby]

I want to hug you Robert for your generosity ans help towards humanity. Carl Jung, Jordan Peterson and you with your beautiful mind and books are the reasons why i decided to study psychology in France. Thank you so nuch Robert !

[x-mess]

It's the activity that lights you up... it's a type of problem you love to find the solutions for without the paycheck...

[MrRocksW]

I'm 30 years old, after a big failure in my first job the 48 laws of power helped me get on the right path.

[dreambeliever]

Love it man. I was always a loner and musician as a child.
What you say so resonates with me. 50 now and took so many wrong paths.. mostly because of no positive influence. That’s what makes me very angry. I’m now rekindling my dream. Never too late people. I’m feeling Joy once again, rather than turning to alcohol and a dark depression. My marriage was also very hard because I’m so driven and you just look like a maniac when youre passionate about something.
Was sexually abused for a few years as a young boy by my uncle. My dad was quite distant and has turrets and quite autistic so he wasn’t too keen on turning against his twin brother because his childhood was all sexual and physical abuse too. Anyhow… long story long: I want to start a channel or podcast and help kids who are dealing with this to realize they’ve got a shot in life. This hurts marriages and destroys self esteem. It’s destroyed my marriage in so many ways. My wife of 16 years would hug up on me at night and I would jump sky high out of bed and turn over. Never knew I did it. She’d cry alot because of this. Anyhow, we are working things out as much as we can. Back to my point: I love writing, story telling, and film making. I write and mix music also. My brother went to school to learn video so he’s jacked about this stuff too. It’s just in our family and we’re always in some dead end job because we feel like there’s no market for this stuff. At 50… a switch went off and I realized… I CAN DO THIS! You can too! Let’s go!

[whittedmedia]

I agree 1000%. This has changed my life. Due to purpose making me extremely successful, the only thing I would add is that you don't have one singular purpose. Your purpose continues to evolve and change. The goal is to keep finding your purpose over and over

[karlstrauss]

I first read Mastery about 7 or 8 years ago when I was 23. I was lost and directionless working as a cashier at a retail store. I spent some time soul searching and remembered how much I loved music. I decided I would pick back up the guitar and try to be a musician and put in the work and practice. Today 8 years later, I sold my electric guitar to a Pawn Shop for 50 dollars after it was collecting dust in my closet for 5 years. I loved music but I hated practicing scales and trying to remember how to play songs. It was a chore that gave me no pleasure and had no natural ability for it. I’ve started to enjoy music again now only after walking away from it.

I’m a bartender now, and even though I don’t really consider bartending my passion or my purpose and I’m not the best bartender in the world but I make much more money in tips than I ever did as a cashier or security guard trying to make it a musician. Not everyone is born to be a musician, writer or entrepreneur. I’m sure Robert Greene would say I didn’t try hard enough or that I need to do more soul searching but after soul searching for over a decade I think for a lot of people having a regular job that you don’t necessarily care for but makes you enough money to live a comfortable life for you and your family is all you need.

[Eastofcascades]

Dig deep and you’ll find who you are. Growing and eating sugar snap peas in my moms garden has to be one of my earliest memories. I learned that food grew out of the ground and that fascinated me. One of my most vivid formative memories is finding dried corn amongst my moms packed away fall decor. Almost instinctively I picked them apart and planted multiple kernels in each of my moms many houseplant pots. I’m not sure how long it took but some time later I overheard my mom asking my dad why grass was growing amongst all of her houseplants, my dad laughed and told her it looked more like corn than grass. That was when I proudly confessed to destroying her beloved fall decor and planting it all over the house, which she was quite upset about. My dad on the other hand was impressed and promised me that when it warmed up enough in a few weeks we could plant them on the south side of the house. By the end of that short Alaskan summer we had a surplus of beautiful multicolored, delicious corn. We grew more than enough to replace what I had destroyed and my mom thanked me.. It felt like magic. That was the beginning for me.
A couple years later our family fell apart and life was pure chaos from then on. In my teen years I lost my way and suffered greatly at my own hand in to my twenties. Through a relationship with God and help from my husband I began healing and I rediscovered my love for growing food. We are now living in an agricultural community, and learning how to care for an orchard. I couldn’t imagine a better life for myself.

[JimmyJaxJellyStax]

I'm 34 with the worst burnout I've ever experienced after 4 years in software development. Needless to say, I've always been recognized by my art teachers throughout my entire childhood and into college and really enjoy crafting new things and ways of seeing existing things into reality - perhaps it's time to have to courage to recognize it's ok to try a more creative career in design and let go of the fear of "starving artist." I particularly do hyperrealism drawing and have had plenty of great feedback but it's just my own inner motivation to truly take it on - maybe accept it can be something more. Maybe the most painful part of coding is all the technical limitations and disagreements among developers - raw design is absolutely more freedom.

[pg]

I am 40 years old now man. I have childhood memories of unfinished school work, struggling to meet my parents' expectations, mediocre grades, moderately overweight body, struggling to gain female attention, not great at sports. I remember taking a walk with my uncle, and him asking me about my interests. I drew a blank then, just as I do now. I did not realize it at the time but I feel like I suffered from ADHD and associated depression from a very early age.

[antoniodossantos]

I became a writer at age 61 in Bogotá, Colombia. It has been my way to overcome my reality as immigrant. It has been my way to protest elegantly and reach the World 🌎

[Thiago-nhxp]

"Mastery" one of the best books i ever read. Nobody talk about the topics you cover in your books so deep as you, you master the writing art! Love all your books

[dickietalmage]

I'm 70 and I thank you for this video! You have awakened something in me that I knew all my life. I have repressed it because I was told it wasn't what I should do. I was too emotional to be a vet. Because I cried everytime an animal died. It hasn't stopped me from rescuing and caring for every animal that I thought needed my help. I will read all your books. Lots of love Robert ❤️

[jennyfox]

There are so many self help gurus out there that, at their core, are just motivational speakers. So many people I know, including myself, don't necessarily lack motivation we just don't know where to start.
Birth charts, IKIGAI wheels, therapy, motivational books, positive self talk, etc
It really doesn't mean much when you're stuck in a wheel. I'm definitely reading Mastery. Having some place to start, even if it doesn't lead anywhere right away is a lot better than just running blindly in any direction.

[oregonsnob]

Mr Greene you have helped me in ways I could never enumerate well enough. I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[ArleighLauren]

I like the question, ‘As a child when you were alone in your room, what was your go to activity?’ I feel like that speaks volumes on your interests without having to actually think about interests. It takes us back to the foundation of what we naturally gravitated to. As an example, my go to was writing stories and creating. I lost that growing up when I became self conscious and critical of my work compared to my peers. As an adult now, I’m so lost on what to pursue as a career, this kind of opened my eyes to focus on what I cared about before I was hard on myself and my fear of anything less than perfection.

[Tom-Travels]

My life purpose is to have no purpose. I am succeeding beyond my wildest dreams. I just live in the moment and totally rely on luck, karma, and fate. I've really enjoyed the journey.

[lorraineforbes]

Background “music” is maddening.Detracts from Greene’s message.