48. How to Find and Live Your Purpose With Suzy Welch

In this episode, Sam sits down with Suzy Welch of Becoming You, a bestselling book, podcast, and class at NYU Stern School of Business designed to help you uncover your core values and live your true purpose. They talk about how she developed this methodology, why it works, and how to apply it to your real life (plus, they review Sam's results in real time)! Listen to this episode if you're feeling a bit lost, if you're in transformation, or if you want to lock in on your true purpose. Key moments: 02:24 How TF do you actually live your purpose? 03:15 Being a passive actor in your life (when you feel like life is “happening to you,” and even when it looks perfect from the outside) 04:50 How Becoming You became a class at NYU Stern School of Business 06:51 Anyone can take the class—it’s open to the public! 07:35 Developing her methodology for helping people find their purpose 08:20 Why this method is different, and why it works 08:59 The 3 steps to finding your purpose 11:01 How to determine what you’re good at 11:27 The best aptitude tests available (and how she used them to make her own) 12:02 What actually are values? (No, kindness and honesty aren’t values!) 14:36 How to determine your values 15:02 How she determined which values to include in the methodology 17:10 Realizing she had to revise the methodology to include romantic love 20:05 The power of admitting you were wrong 23:54 How to learn and understand your values in less than 30 minutes 25:30 How she manages to get accurate results in such a short quiz (nerding out on the development process!) 30:16 Large-scale data, trends, and predictions that have emerged from the quiz 30:53 How the Values Bridge explains the Gen Z job crisis 37:09 Sam reacts to her Values Bridge results 43:24 Sam’s Values Bridge results 45:19 Men have THIS value much more than women do 52:09 Can your values change over time, or are they kind of set in stone? 55:02 Living your life in The Three Ds: Default, Deliberation, Design 57:21 Alpha Omega: 3 questions that help you start thinking about your values 59:52 I got my results…now what? Next steps for applying values to your daily decisions and lives Take The Values Bridge online quiz. Join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WHOOP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow along: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/lifeincapslock⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.tiktok.com/@lifeincapslock⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@lifeincapslock⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Threads: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.threads.net/@lifeincapslock⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices