Discovering Your Essence: The Key to Finding Your True Path
00:00:00.000 | I think a lot of us are thinking, I know what I'm good at, I know what I like to do, but
00:00:03.880 | I don't really know what I should do.
00:00:05.280 | Dharma has been called many different things.
00:00:07.400 | You'll find different definitions, but my grandfather called that your essence, right?
00:00:11.100 | We all have an essence.
00:00:12.440 | And the question is, are we expressing that?
00:00:15.280 | And this is where I got it wrong for a lot of years, which is I always assumed that essence
00:00:19.720 | equals job.
00:00:21.640 | Essence equals job title.
00:00:23.200 | So my essence is to be a programmer.
00:00:25.460 | My essence is to be a product manager or to be a lawyer.
00:00:29.480 | Those are occupations, but they're not an essence.
00:00:32.640 | An essence, it's deeper than that.
00:00:34.300 | It's I enjoy helping people.
00:00:35.840 | I enjoy designing things from scratch.
00:00:37.960 | I enjoy assembling products or growing other people's careers.
00:00:42.200 | And the idea is that when you can come back to that essence, it opens up a universe of
00:00:46.460 | possibilities because there are always multiple ways to express that essence.