Finding Purpose in Life | LIVE in Coimbatore Book Festival | John Giftah

0:00 Speaker 1: Now, a lot of people think that, you know what,

0:02 Speaker 1: if I just find something to do that will help us,

0:05 Speaker 1: say the community, or help the community, that's going to

0:08 Speaker 1: be great. But now, for example, if you take a newspaper, right,

0:12 Speaker 1: you can use a newspaper for a lot of things.

0:14 Speaker 1: What do you do? You use it to clean something,

0:16 Speaker 1: You use it to wrap something when you are feeling

0:19 Speaker 1: extremely hot, you use it to blow air towards yourself.

0:23 Speaker 1: You use the newspaper for a variety of purposes, but

0:26 Speaker 1: apart from reading the news exactly. But the primary purpose

0:30 Speaker 1: of a newspaper is to convey the news to you, right,

0:34 Speaker 1: same way, every one of us have a primary purpose

0:37 Speaker 1: that we are designed to do. And only when we

0:40 Speaker 1: do that we actually live out to the full potential

0:43 Speaker 1: that you and I are called to do. And that's

0:45 Speaker 1: how we will actually be better. We will be having

0:48 Speaker 1: satisfaction in a life. And that's why I try to

0:51 Speaker 1: tell people don't just try to you know, when you

0:53 Speaker 1: say using it for purpose is like saying, you know,

0:56 Speaker 1: I'm just using it for cleaning something and not reading

0:59 Speaker 1: the news like that, That's what many people are doing

1:02 Speaker 1: with their life, and that's why they feel like, oh,

1:04 Speaker 1: I'm not good enough. Look at somebody else, they're so talented.

1:07 Speaker 1: Look at me, I'm just a nobody. No, you're not

1:09 Speaker 1: in the body. It's just that you're in the wrong place.

1:12 Speaker 1: So that's the reason you're in the process. And that's

1:16 Speaker 1: why I tell people you need to find the purpose

1:19 Speaker 1: of your life. Now, for example, this awesome book, Right,

1:22 Speaker 1: if I went and sold it in a fish market,

1:25 Speaker 1: I'm sure no one is going to buy a book

1:26 Speaker 1: in the fish market, right, But at the same time,

1:29 Speaker 1: if I keep it in a book stall, it makes

1:31 Speaker 1: sense because people love reading books. So if you feel

1:34 Speaker 1: like you're not valued, it's not because there's something wrong

1:38 Speaker 1: we do. It's like you're trying to sell yourself in

1:40 Speaker 1: the wrong market. So maybe if you're gifted in singing,

1:43 Speaker 1: don't go to a ted X competition. You're going to

1:46 Speaker 1: think like, oh, I'm the fool in the place. So

1:49 Speaker 1: go to a place that you're gifted. Go to what

1:51 Speaker 1: you are called to do, and then we can talk

1:54 Speaker 1: about different aspects in which you can actually find your

1:57 Speaker 1: purpose in life. So it's a life bulk. Yes, it's

2:01 Speaker 1: like a light bulb kind of a moment. So now

2:03 Speaker 1: when you talk about finding your purpose. Like you said,

2:07 Speaker 1: there are different ways in which you can find your purpose.

2:10 Speaker 1: And one of the key things in doing that is now,

2:13 Speaker 1: for example, now I'm holding this microphone, and you saw like, oh,

2:17 Speaker 1: I'm good in holding my microphone. But as a kid,

2:19 Speaker 1: this was my microphone. So what I did was I

2:23 Speaker 1: just made a nameship microphone. And I used to go

2:26 Speaker 1: around practicing, you know, how to speak. I used to

2:29 Speaker 1: set up a place in my living room where I

2:33 Speaker 1: would just you know, open all the showcases at a

2:37 Speaker 1: certain angle so I can see myself on the television screen.

2:41 Speaker 1: I can see myself in all these different angles. I

2:43 Speaker 1: look like I'm preaching in a big conference or something

2:46 Speaker 1: like that. So that's how I did when I was

2:49 Speaker 1: a kid, and today that's exactly what I'm doing, you know,

2:52 Speaker 1: my purpose. So one other thing people think is, oh,

2:54 Speaker 1: that's just a childhood craze. You're just weird about this.

2:57 Speaker 1: This is nothing great. But that would act align you

3:01 Speaker 1: to what you are actually called to do. So now

3:03 Speaker 1: don't think that that's just a childhood craze. Now, I

3:06 Speaker 1: love this cartoon, Scooby Doo. Anybody here loves Scooby Doo cartoon? Yes,

3:10 Speaker 1: of course, right, Yeah, so that's Scooby Doo. Everybody loves

3:15 Speaker 1: Scooby Doo. So I don't know if you know this,

3:17 Speaker 1: but I actually got records for my Scooby Doo collection.

3:21 Speaker 1: Have I even said a world record a few months back,

3:24 Speaker 1: like head to Toe of only Scooby Doo. And I

3:27 Speaker 1: used Scooby Doo as one of my tools to motivate people,

3:30 Speaker 1: encourage people. So Scooby Doo is something people say, Oh,

3:33 Speaker 1: you're too you know. I mean, I'm not too old,

3:36 Speaker 1: but you're too old for Scooby Doo. But you know,

3:38 Speaker 1: something that people think is crazy actually drives me to

3:42 Speaker 1: a sense of purpose and in a unique way, I'm

3:45 Speaker 1: able to reach people, tell people, motivate people, help people.

3:49 Speaker 1: So that's how I always tell people, look at what

3:51 Speaker 1: you used to do when you're young. Look at something

3:54 Speaker 1: that you did when nobody put a gun on your

3:56 Speaker 1: head to tell you this is what you gotta do.

3:57 Speaker 1: No one told me writes stories, but I still sarted writing.

4:00 Speaker 1: My spellings were bad, you know, my storylines were horrible.

4:05 Speaker 1: Illustrations were unbearable to look at. But you know that's

4:09 Speaker 1: how I kept working on it and ended up writing

4:12 Speaker 1: my best seller books today, so you never know what

4:15 Speaker 1: you did when you were young were actually shedding light

4:18 Speaker 1: to what you're actually worn to do. So never neglect that,

4:22 Speaker 1: never forsake that, and keep going after your passion, your purpose,

4:25 Speaker 1: and keep channelizing them, and then you will eventually step

4:29 Speaker 1: into There's so much more I can talk about it,

4:31 Speaker 1: but you can read my book and you will find

4:33 Speaker 1: them