The Michelangelo Method: Carving Out Your Life's Purpose
00:00:00.000 | The metaphor that I love is Michelangelo
00:00:02.800 | would look at a block of marble, and he would say,
00:00:04.980 | the sculpture is already inside.
00:00:06.480 | I just need to chisel away the layers that are in its way.
00:00:09.120 | And I think dharma operates in very much the same way.
00:00:12.280 | I can almost guarantee for you and me
00:00:13.920 | and anybody who's listening right now,
00:00:15.400 | there is an essence that you've already been in touch
00:00:17.360 | with at some point in time.
00:00:18.760 | It could have been when you were a little kid.
00:00:19.880 | It could have been last week.
00:00:21.100 | But you've had brushes, incidents with this essence.
00:00:23.480 | It may be buried under deadlines,
00:00:25.680 | under drop-offs, under all the other things
00:00:28.200 | we have going on in our lives.
00:00:29.800 | And we can start to kind of chisel away those layers.
00:00:32.440 | One of the ways that we can do that is through good questions
00:00:35.600 | to kind of come back to who we are.
00:00:37.480 | One of the questions that I love the most
00:00:39.120 | is, what would you do for free?
00:00:40.960 | If compensation was not a factor,
00:00:43.360 | what is it that you would want to spend your time
00:00:45.400 | doing anyway?
00:00:46.280 | If you can clearly answer that question,
00:00:48.600 | now you're starting to get closer
00:00:50.200 | to this thing inside of you that wants to express itself,
00:00:53.240 | no matter how the outside world reacts.