Empowering individuals to tap into their greatness.

-- Les Brown

This could be a good example of a WHY.

For me, the book is one of the things I've done.  I don't define myself an author, I wrote a book.  I don't define myself as a speaker, I speak because people invite me to speak and when they stop inviting me, I'll stop speaking.  But it's this cause, it's the idea, it's spreading the WHY to me that matters most.  And so you think you are talking about a book, I think we're talking about an idea.  And if it happens to be in a book, that means people can get all the details from the book and you can get it without me.  For me it's the joy of having a book.  Which is, I can spread the idea to more people than ever I can speak to.  So thank you for that, thanks for helping.

-- Simon Sinek

Simon made this quote during an interview on Mixergy.com with Andrew Warner

My WHY is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.  And I wake up every single day with that sense of purpose and cause to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.  And for me, the fun is trying to come up with all the new and different ways, what I can do to bring that to life.  Whether it's writing a book, or giving a podcast, or going on TV, or writing an article, or speaking, or anything else that probably has not being thought of yet.  For me the goal is to come up with all the different ways I can share my WHY, spread my WHY.  But the thing that motivates me everyday is not to write a book.  That's a horrible experience.  The thing that motivates me everyday is to give, is to share the WHY, to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.

-- Simon Sinek

Simon made this quote during an interview on Mixergy.com with Andrew Warner

Simon Sinek Start With Why Interview: Arguably the Single Most Powerful Principle in Business

left-siders library

Start With Why > Learn Your Why > Learning Library > Left-siders

Simon Sinek on Leadership - TED2014

MISSION STATEMENT OF HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL

Empowered by the Gospel message of Jesus, Holy Cross, a Catholic high school, develops young men and women to become life-long learners and well-informed citizens through dynamic spiritual, academic, co-curricular, and community activities.

-- Holy Cross High School

Here's a possible example of a WHY

He who has a Why can bear almost any How.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

why exploration questions

Edwin Jansen created the doc: "Why Exploration Questions"

In Simon's Why University Discovery course there are lots of questions that will help you explore your Why. Here are some supplemental questions that I have found to work. With each, remember to keep asking why this is important so that you explore beneath the surface level.

1. In your life so far, what are your greatest accomplishments?  Why did you do these things?
2. If you were hosting a dinner party and invited five famous people, who would they be and what you want to know from them?
3. What do you find to be the most inspiring and uplifting characteristics of other people?
4. What do you like best about yourself?
5. What do you need to have accomplished to have lived a life without regrets?
6. What is your greatest fear and how do you deal with it?
7. What do you want to prevent other people from having to experience?
8. What are two things that just don’t work in this world?
9. What injustices cause you to be outraged?
10. What needs to stop?
11. What needs to start?
12. What would you do if you had a magic wand?
13. What would you be doing if it was impossible to fail?