Full Transcript for Why Am I Here? Part I]] Finding Your Purpose with Sameer Ranjan

--> 00:05:38.319 And uh when we talk about giving, it is not just about money, it is about how do you see the world? 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:45.360 Like giving for me is a nature, it's not something that when I'll have enough, then only I'll give. 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:57.279 Giving comes from within, which is they didn't had a lot of money, but they had a lot of wisdom so that uh they can help society grow, they can help people grow. 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:14.160 I think I saw that as a child, and when I reached uh in my undergrad college days, I saw a huge issue, which was around uh people who didn't had good wealth, they were not able to get good education. 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:22.959 So somehow, I don't know how this world transformed into a place where education got tied to the wealth you have. 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:24.879 And I wanted to break that clutter. 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:31.199 I always believed that education is something that should be democratized, it should be available to everyone. 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:40.079 It doesn't matter which caste, creed, color, place of uh birth, or the money that you have should matter. 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:48.959 And uh I started I started teaching people free of cost and then found out more people who wanted to do the same. 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:59.040 And at a point in time, I was running one of the largest supply chain operations of teachers and a student and zero cost and zero money to be made there. 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:08.480 And uh I didn't know like what impact I was creating, but a few years later, when I was traveling internationally, I saw a kid coming to me. 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:27.839 I was in a mask due to COVID time, and they came to me and they said, Sir, uh, I was one of your students, and today uh I came from a very low mid, low biddle, uh low economic class, but now I'm making a good amount of money just because the education I was able to have due to you. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.000 I don't think I did anything there. 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:42.240 I think it was intended to be like that, but that gave me the biggest satisfaction that uh due to some way I was able to create a change or an impact in someone's life. 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:50.560 And I think that was the trigger moment when I understood that my life's purpose cannot be getting salary, cannot be getting money. 00:07:50.800 --> 00:08:01.120 It has to be a little bit more than that, which is how can I create systems, how I can help out people so that their life gets impacted in a much positive way. 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:02.879 That was the moment. 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:04.800 Yeah, that that sounds pretty awesome. 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:12.399 Um, I'll just go ahead and share with you when I figured out what it is I'm really supposed to be doing on this here on this earth. 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:15.439 I've always, like I said, I've always wanted to be a motivational speaker. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:26.399 Always since high school, people always came to me for advice, and I'm always giving advice, being supportive, um, trying to help people realize that they have greatness. 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.160 And it took me some years to go do some of the things that I wanted to do. 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:36.960 But when I kind of honed in on becoming a motivational speaker, first thing I thought about was, hey, you have to write a book. 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.600 So I started writing this book, and it was it was entitled Recognize Your Greatness. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:46.799 And at that present time, my mother was living in um Laudon, Oklahoma. 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:49.279 And so I went to go visit her for Thanksgiving. 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:59.039 I met her pastor at church on Sunday, and come to find out two or three months later, he was coming to Nashville, that's where I'm located, um, to visit. 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:02.240 And my mother said, I want you to go ahead and have dinner with the, you know, with the pastor. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:03.440 So I said, okay, that's fine. 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:05.120 I have no problem with it whatsoever. 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:11.840 But then by that time I had finished writing my book, and I really wanted him to read it because I really wanted his input on it. 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:13.600 And so I gave him the book. 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:19.759 About two days later, he called me and he said, Um, he said, Floyd, I read your book. 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:21.519 I said, Yeah, what you think about it? 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.000 He said, You know you've been called a preach. 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:29.120 And I said, No, I that's not I don't want to do that. 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:31.600 I don't want to be a preacher, I don't want to be in the pulpit. 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:33.840 And he he said, Well, what do you want to do? 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:35.840 I said, I want to be a motivational speaker. 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:39.279 And he said, What's the difference? 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:44.080 And that I was stunned. 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:48.240 I couldn't answer the question, I couldn't respond because I did not know the answer. 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:54.320 So I I decided to follow my path or my career or my purpose. 00:09:54.559 --> 00:10:07.600 Um, went to seminary school, did my first sermon all within a matter of a year because I found my purpose and I was just so excited and I was so, you know, just geeked about it. 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:14.799 And another situation, then it then I had a speaking engagement at the University of Tennessee. 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:18.080 And after it was called Religion versus Spirituality. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:23.360 And after the lesson, two people walked up to me. 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:27.120 The first lady, she said, What church do you preach at? 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.200 I said, I'm not a preacher. 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:36.240 The second

guy, he left a comment, he said it was a great presentation, but I wasn't expecting a sermon. 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.799 So I knew I was on the right path. 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:41.840 It's just all about me just totally accepting that. 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.840 Like I said, once you find out what your purpose is, I mean, it will fuel you. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:56.080 I mean, I'm pretty sure you have late nights when when everybody else is sleeping, but you're up and you're thinking because you you want to move your purpose because it ignites something in you, you know? 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.559 Um, so that that's how I got started in the whole thing. 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:08.240 Um, and I did a ministerial thing, but then I started thinking that my platform can be a lot larger than just a church. 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:08.720 Okay. 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:12.639 And I'm not trying to brag on my podcast, I have a million downloads. 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:15.919 In a church, I will never reach that many people. 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:19.840 So I was like, okay, so I'm totally geek. 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:27.279 So I understand honest how you feel about, you know, everything which you would you experience, you know, and I realize it's not all about money. 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:32.000 Because if you find out your purpose, the money's gonna find you. 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:35.039 And that's just that's just the way it's created, you know? 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:35.679 Yeah. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:36.399 Yeah. 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:37.200 Yeah. 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:38.320 I agree. 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:38.720 I agree. 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:42.559 Money follows passion and passion follows purpose. 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:43.919 So I agree. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:45.519 Yeah, you know, yeah, definitely. 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.039 Um, you know, which which brings us to like the next question. 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:58.000 You know, a lot of people look at they look at their calling, their purpose in life is for their career. 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:06.799 Now, and I do I do agree that there are some positions, there are some careers that you have to have a purpose for. 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:11.679 You have to have a purpose to teach, you have to have a purpose to become a doctor. 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:13.679 You have to have something in you. 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.799 Everyone can't do it, everyone can't be a nurse, everyone can't be a teacher, but you have to have that special calling. 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:28.559 But if you look at it, and if you talk to any one of those doctors or teachers or whatever, they don't they don't do it because just the aspect of teaching. 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:32.080 They do it because they love to help people. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:37.840 And whenever you're helping people, you are serving your purpose in life. 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:38.399 Okay? 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:48.799 So how did you know when you found your purpose instead of just a paycheck? 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:58.559 Because I know you I know you used to do mining operations in India, and now you are um this entrepreneur in the global technology world and everything is moving kind of fast. 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.279 So when did it transcend from purpose over paycheck? 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:04.320 Right. 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:10.240 That that's a that's a really good question, and I would like to dive on two thoughts, right? 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:15.679 One is you need paycheck so that you can you can run your home. 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:25.679 At the end of the day, you need to eat food, you need to have a family or live with a family, support your people that you love, you care. 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.559 And then the second aspect is passion. 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:38.399 Sometimes and rarely in life, it happens that your passion and paycheck, as you said, like uh uh merges with each other and create something beautiful. 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:46.080 I think for me it was um when I saw that with paychecks, I'm not making much difference. 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:53.600 If I'm working in mines, I am doing a very monotonous operation every day. 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:56.320 And with that, I was not feeling happy. 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:59.759 I was not feeling that I'm actually making any difference. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:11.440 Mining was one of the most adventurous things that I ever did in my life because it was underground mines, and it's a whole new world, whole new different world, which not many people get to experience it. 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:23.440 But when I started doing this entrepreneurship thing, my idea to start it was money because I wanted to get a lot of money so that I can help a lot of people. 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:38.559 And then I saw when I started doing it, I started teaching, I tried to reach out to many people, and saw that in a manner I'm helping people and I'm not caring about paychecks at all, and it is giving me a peaceful night. 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:43.679 And one day my father asked, like, Do you feel that uh the work is stressing you? 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:58.559 And I said, like, over the past five, six years, I have never felt a single day stressed due to work, which is I'd never felt that I have to get up and uh I'll again have to go and do the work and I'll feel sad about it. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:04.320 I wake up and I feel happy that I'll get to work on something which will actually create difference. 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:18.960 And that thought is I think that made my father smile and happy because he said, That's your purpose, that's your calling, and it made me feel the same thing that I never felt the same when I was doing mining operations. 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:23.759 Because now I wake up and I feel that how I can make a difference, how I can change something. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.559 And I know that

I am contributing towards the change, not just paycheck. 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:41.279 So that feeling, I think uh I don't know the exact time when it came, but I know over the year I was able to achieve it without even thinking that uh I'll get there. 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:44.960 Yeah, uh yeah, I mean I can I can totally relate to it. 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:57.519 Um before I started this podcast while I was working with Apple and also was working with Red Hat software company, so I was pretty much in sales. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.080 And one day I had this same thought that you had. 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.240 I woke up and I'll get tired of waking up. 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:09.120 Yes, I'm making money, but at the end of the night, I will come home and I will be empty, I will be drained, I'll be depleted. 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.679 I'm always just stressing over something. 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:15.759 And I started thinking, like, why am I just stressing over for this thing? 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:20.159 And this is because I was out of alignment with my purpose. 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.559 Okay, there's that missing piece, that missing ingredient. 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:31.120 And I was been over a year and a half ago, and I feel so much better. 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:35.759 You know, I wake up like I just like the thing, I wake up with with a purpose. 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:50.240 I go to sleep with a purpose, you know, and I'm able to rest and not worry about, you know, metrics and trying to just sell people something that they know just so I can feed my family or just so I can have a roof over my head, you know. 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:53.440 And I think that a lot of people need to understand that. 00:16:53.519 --> 00:17:02.159 You know, it's it's not it's not about how much money you make, you know, it's about doing what you love to do, what you would do for free. 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.200 And once you do it for free, like I said before, the money will find you. 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.400 It's just that's the way the universe works. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:20.160 A lot of people look at, um, I want to be just like, you know, when you're a kid, the first thing they ask you is, what do you want to be when you grow up? 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:26.160 You know, do you want to be a lawyer, you want to be a professional athlete, you want to be a doctor, whatever it is that you want to be. 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:34.079 Because and we're selecting those things not so much as because we're attracted to them, but because their things popular. 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:35.680 It's what's expected. 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:40.160 When I was growing up being a lawyer and a doctor was well respected. 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:49.519 Nowadays, being an athlete or being an influencer on social media carries the same way, you know. 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:56.960 Um, but a lot of people just don't just ever get to that point that they they realize that I gotta find out what I want to do. 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:07.759 You know, and and and it doesn't matter what everybody else says, oh, my mother says I should do this, my father says I should do this, my uncle, whatever, whoever said about telling you this. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:12.480 But the thing that they don't realize is that the advice is fine. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:20.400 Okay, but can't nobody tell you what your purpose is other than yourself. 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.000 You know, and also it's a journey. 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:29.200 It's not that one day you will wake up and you'll suddenly find your purpose. 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:37.680 It's a journey that you might have been on, and one day you will realize that you have found a purpose rather than finding a purpose itself. 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:47.759 So I I believe that uh once you I think the experiences teach you purpose, which is all the good, bad, ugly experiences. 00:18:47.839 --> 00:19:00.559 And I I hope the listeners who are listening, I'll just add something from my side that um most often bad experiences teaches you purpose rather than the good experiences. 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:09.680 And that will give you, tell you that, okay, or this is what I always wanted to do in life, and then you'll figure out that, okay, this is what my purpose is. 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:22.079 You know, that's that's one thing that that I did talk about in the um the original podcast is that, you know, um sometimes we need we we go through defeat, we go through failures, we go through setbacks, and we decide, oh, I'm on the wrong path. 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:31.039 But then if you ever just sat down to think about it, you know, you don't know how close you are from turning that corner or achieving that next level. 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:35.759 So why you sit up here quitting and then you miss out on that whole thing. 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:52.640 You know, and then a lot of people, there's, I mean, it is it is it is astonishing to understand that many people in this world is gonna live a lifetime, 60, 70, 80 years, and never understand their purpose. 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:55.839 Not because it's hard, not because it's difficult. 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.200 It is tedious, yes, it is. 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:14.559 It is aggravating, it is tedious, it is a whole thing, but it's the most fulfilling experience that you will have, you know, in any life, you know, and and then you know, Miles Monroe, he he's a he's a um renowned pastor, you know, he's he said a quote that always sticks with me. 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:20.559 He said, the most valuable land is a cemetery. 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:31.440 Because there, so many dreams, so many purposes, so many callings never was realized. 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:46.000 You know, and living in one of those graves, there there is a cure for AIDS, there's a cure for a a lot of things in which we are, but because they stopped, they never figured

out why they were here, you know. 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:48.960 And I agree, our journeys are totally different. 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:52.799 But we can't compare each other with a journey, you know? 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:55.519 Never, never, yeah, yeah, all right. 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:58.240 So it it's it's just it's amazing. 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:03.119 I mean, and I ask everybody, you know, what's your purpose in life? 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:08.960 I remember I asked one friend, I asked him, um, what is your purpose? 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:11.839 And he gave me a job description. 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:16.400 I said, that's that's that's not your purpose, that's what you do. 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:21.200 The why you do it is your purpose. 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:23.440 You agree with that? 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:51.119 I 100% agree with that, and uh I met so many people having midlife crisis just because of that, because uh I work in IT field and technology field where people take prestige over titles that they have at job and they tie it up to the thing that they think that they are doing in their life, which is I think if they are VP of operation, that's their purpose. 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:54.559 Uh in general, it might be something very else. 00:21:54.640 --> 00:22:04.000 And I've seen most people having midlife crisis because of that, because they never they never Never truly were brave enough to figure out who they were. 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:15.279 I think I don't know whether you'll agree with me or not, but I think to even find out what's your purpose, you need to be really brave in life. 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:20.640 Because not everybody can take a punch on the chin when life throws at you. 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:27.920 And uh as you said, right, there might be victory right around the corner, but you don't know how far the corner is. 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:30.880 It might be one day away, it might be one month away. 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:38.240 But a person who is willing to go that mile, go that one extra day, definitely finds the purpose. 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:45.119 And most of the people that even I meet, uh they just want to give up before reaching there. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:50.079 And that that's the whole thing, you know, it's about, you know, like you say, you you can't give up. 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:54.720 You have to keep going because you don't know when when the turnaround is gonna come. 00:22:54.960 --> 00:23:05.920 You know, um, it's so mind-blowing that um we spend a lot of time searching for a purpose within the world. 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:10.559 Some people, oh, I just want to travel the world and to find myself. 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:15.359 How are you gonna go to a country you've never been to and find yourself? 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:20.720 You can't go to a school and find yourself. 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:23.359 You can go to school and learn some things about yourself. 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:31.920 You can go across seas and you can learn something about yourself, but you can't learn yourself, you know, because the journey is within. 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:45.519 Remember, I was telling, I was telling you about, we do um before I, once I accepted ministry role, my cousin, who's also a pastor, I said I didn't know what I really wanted to do in the church. 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:47.920 I didn't understand what my spiritual gifts were. 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:52.640 And what he did, he gave me this spiritual gift assessment test. 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:54.240 He told me, just go through it. 00:23:54.319 --> 00:24:03.039 It's about a 45-minute test, a very long test, and just trying to figure out exactly how you would feel about different circumstances and situations that pops up in life. 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:13.839 You know, so as you go through it, and then at the end, it'll just go and tell you this is what you're strong at, this is what you're weak at, this is what you're improved at, and then it will give you a list of things which you have to do. 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:29.599 And I was like, okay, that kind of made sense because every time I was reading it, I was like, okay, now I understand why I do certain things, why I look at certain certain things a certain way, because that's a part of who I am, you know? 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:39.200 And we did talk briefly about the software that you've created to help people who are struggling trying to identify their purpose. 00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:42.960 Because, like I said, you can't go to mama and dad ask, well, my mama, why am I here? 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:44.000 She don't know. 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:44.880 She doesn't know. 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:48.640 So you have to try to do things that will help you. 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:58.000 But it's still, it's all about being introspective, looking at yourself, being honest with yourself, you know, is is the key. 00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:10.000 So can you talk a little bit about how your software works and and how it can help you identify your purpose in life or the perfect job or the perfect position for you? 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:11.440 Sure, sure. 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:19.759 So uh the the scientific theory behind what I have created is uh behavioral economics. 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:23.039 I'll explain it to the listeners what does it mean? 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:33.599 Behavioral economics is if you are given a situation where you have to do XYZ thing, how does you will react to a situation? 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:54.319 For example, if I give you$100 and I'll ask you to go to a casino and play that$100 and you win$100, would you take that$100 and not play it because you think your luck has uh made you$100, or do you think you will go and try your luck that now you'll put that$200 down and try to win more? 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:57.519 That happens with us every day at the workplace. 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:02.720 Workplace

uh in a terms is something which is based on your behavior. 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:05.119 There is an amount tied to it that you will make. 00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:18.640 Now we'll use the same concept, same science, and it is being done uh in a very unique manner where the user doesn't get tired by giving the assessment and it tells their soft skill and personality trait. 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:19.759 Now, what happens? 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:22.640 This is used as a decisioning framework. 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:32.720 So now they can take the soft skill that they have and the personality that they have and decide what all different things are there that they can go and do. 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:44.079 Most often, people who fail or who try to or who often see failure in life are the people who didn't even know that they had options to do certain things. 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:46.559 They think that they didn't have options. 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:56.000 But my tools tell them that what all that they can do, so that they can actually go prepare for it and the gaps also, that what they need to prepare. 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:03.599 So they can go prepare and actually be ready for a job that that suits their personality, that suits their skill that they have. 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:12.559 Now, soft skill and personality is something which is inherent that you get from the surrounding, that you get from birth, or that you learn with the experiences. 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:20.480 Now you can use it in the age of AI, where everybody can do everything with a prompt and a generation. 00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:30.319 The only thing that will make you shine or get a job is who you are, and who you are is often your personality, is often your soft skill. 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:31.359 So that's what we do. 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:33.680 That's what we that's how we help people. 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:48.240 We help organizations understand people, we help individuals understand themselves so that uh they can be actually better in what they are doing, or actually try to figure out what all options they have and not feel stuck or not feel alone. 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:54.880 Wow, that's um that's interesting that you brought up the word stuck. 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.839 Well, that's one of the questions I was gonna ask you. 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:03.519 Um can you give some advice to someone who might be feeling stuck right now? 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:08.640 They're uncertain, they, you know, they feel as though they missed their purpose in life. 00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:15.200 They might be in their um in their 50s or 60s and realize that it might be and so I think it's it's been too late. 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:17.119 It's too late for me to figure it out now. 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:19.359 What advice would you give them? 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:32.480 That's a very great question, and I'll be vulnerable here for a moment, and I'll say that I have felt the same multiple times, even after finding the purpose. 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:38.160 Not because I wanted to, but because of the life circumstances. 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:43.759 Sometimes things happen from you, not to you. 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:49.759 There might be few decisions that I take which affected the way it affected me. 00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:51.920 It was never the other way around. 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:56.319 There might be things that is coming from me and affecting me in a bad manner. 00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:59.839 And sometimes it is okay to feel stuck. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:07.039 One suggestion that was given to me and which I try to pass along every time is be delusional. 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:12.000 I'll never say be practical, I'll never say be real, I'll always say be delusional. 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:20.799 Because when you are delusional, delusional, then only you can think, then only you can think that there is a possibility of change. 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:28.400 Most of the people who think and who believe that I have to be real, I have to be practical, they think in a single line. 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:45.200 But when you are delusional, when you have an ability to think outside the box and actually believe in it, then you go on a journey where you can find that you are not just stuck, you were just thinking that for a moment you didn't have options. 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.319 But if you are delusional enough, you will always have options. 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:54.400 And you will always try to chase a theory and a goal which is real to you. 00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:59.200 All the great people in the world, like just think about the phones. 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:08.000 Nobody ever thought that two people can talk to each other on a phone, but somebody invented a wire, somebody invented a phone and they started talking. 00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:11.680 But somebody was delusional enough to think that we don't need wire. 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:17.039 Somebody was delusional enough to think that we can talk to each other through the Apple Watch, also. 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:17.599 Right. 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:18.960 So be a dreamer. 00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:22.640 When you will be delusional, then only you can be a dreamer. 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:38.400 And uh when you are delusional enough, you can actually go believe in things, believe in God, believe in yourself, and maybe you can give yourself a chance to get out of wherever your feeling is stuck. 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:42.160 So that's what one of the things that I always go and advise people. 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:44.960 I mean, the book, but yeah. 00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:50.559 No, uh it might be off the book, but it made perfect sense to me. 00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:53.839 Um don't be practical, be delusional. 00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:55.519 You know, think outside the box. 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:58.880 You know, they teach us, oh, think outside the box, think

outside the box. 00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:03.119 But even when they tell us to think outside the box, they want us to keep us in a confined box. 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:07.759 You know, just can't you can't just go willy-nilly and just start thinking about things. 00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:14.720 So I think being delusional, you know, and even that word, you know, has a negative connotation to it. 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:17.200 Um, in certain aspects, and that's true. 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:29.839 But I think when you when you when you're thinking about your life, when you're thinking about your purpose, when you think about your calling, when you think about your happiness, you have to be delusional because you can't just always be practical. 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:32.319 You can't always just follow the status quo. 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:37.119 Sometimes you have to just step out on faith and just let things go and develop the way it is. 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:45.680 And the thing that I've realized is that the more you are delusional, the more your steps will be ordered. 00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:48.960 And you will go step by step and you'll know what you're doing. 00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:54.480 And sometimes, you know, you're like, I know what I'm doing, but I really don't know what I'm doing. 00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:55.039 Yeah. 00:31:55.279 --> 00:32:06.000 You know, I'm just in the beginning stages, but I have this so much excitement and that's built up in me that um that I just know I gotta keep going on, you know, being delusional. 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:09.279 I mean, I got I'm gonna have to steal that from you. 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:12.000 I I mean, I'm gonna have to steal that. 00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:14.960 Don't be practical, be delusional. 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:16.240 Yeah. 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:21.759 And and that that is that is that is an awesome, awesome tidbit. 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:23.039 You know. 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:29.759 Um, and as you know, you you you talked about you mentioned about my podcast. 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:33.039 You know, the thing about us motivating that flow with floor. 00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:39.839 And what we want to do, we want to tell people, we want people to just instill that they have inherent greatness within them. 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:43.200 And it's something that comes from from the creator. 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.880 This is not a debate about religion. 00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:50.480 Doesn't matter where you come from, there's a creator. 00:32:50.880 --> 00:33:02.000 And there is a creator who created us to do what we're supposed to do in order to find our purpose, we have to connect back with our with our creator. 00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:03.039 It's the same thing. 00:33:03.119 --> 00:33:13.599 If you have a problem with your iPhone, you have a problem with with your cooking utensils, whatever you have a problem with, the first thing you do is that you consult the manual, okay? 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:30.079 And the same thing that we need to do, you know, and I'm pretty sure that, like I said, when I was taking spiritual assessment tests, there are things that, yes, you're supposed to pray about it, you're supposed to talk with God, you're supposed to see whether this is leading me in the right direction and remove yourself from it. 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:33.119 And once you do that, it's gonna be awesome. 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:35.359 So that is the premise of flow with floor. 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:41.839 I mean, I want people to realize that they have greatness, they can determine their own destiny, they can do anything in this world that they want to do. 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:48.400 It's gonna be hard, you know, but you can always overcome it, you know. 00:33:49.440 --> 00:34:02.559 So what advice would you give my listeners that they can use this week that's gonna move them closer to discovering their purpose in life? 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:02.960 Yeah. 00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:07.039 Yeah, I I'll just piggyback on the thought that you just said, right? 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:19.840 I think there was a point in my life where I was arrogant enough to think that whatever I am doing is happening because of my actions. 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:23.360 I was very arrogant to think like that. 00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:33.199 And then I think life humbled me down by telling me that there are variables, there are things in my life which I'm not controlling at all. 00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:39.760 There is something which is magical and which is something which is unexplainable. 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:48.079 And whatever is unexplainable, you should always try to think that it's a belief system and believe in it. 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:48.880 Right? 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:56.639 Uh if I always think that uh whatever I'm doing, uh that's how the world will work. 00:34:56.960 --> 00:34:58.800 The world doesn't work like that. 00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:07.199 And I also believe that when things are not going in your way, you should surrender it to the higher being. 00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:07.840 Right? 00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:12.159 It doesn't matter which religion, which caste, which creed you come from. 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:20.239 Every single text in the world, every single manuscript talks about one thing, which is nothing is in your control. 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:24.159 Only thing that you can control are your thoughts. 00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:33.199 And if one advice I have to leave with all the listeners or the viewers is one, control your thoughts. 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.880 Don't talk negative about yourself. 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:41.519 Don't think that you might be in the baddest and worst situation of the world. 00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:44.800 There is always a light at the end of the tunnel. 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:47.360 God might have put you on a journey. 00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:50.480 Believe God, believe, believe the higher creator.

00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:59.360 Even if you don't believe in any God, believe that there is superpower which is way above ourselves, believe in it, and you will 100% find a way. 00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:12.000 It might not look like it today, but when you will pass this phase in your life, you will turn back and you will definitely come and say that there was someone who helped me whom I don't know. 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:16.719 There are there was someone who came in my life at the right time who pulled me out. 00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:24.000 And the third, that I was if you are doing the good things to the other, good things will happen to you. 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:26.719 It might take time, but it will definitely happen. 00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:31.760 Good always comes back, and it comes back in much more than what you have given. 00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:34.320 Yeah, I mean, most definitely, you know. 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:38.079 Um we we talk about the storms of life. 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:46.800 Every storm that I've been through in my life, when I went through it and I came out on the other side, I was always better. 00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:55.039 You know, if you if you agree with the tw the the the laws of attraction, you know, you speak things into existence. 00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:00.320 And if you're gonna speak negativity, guess what you're gonna get? 00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:01.840 Negativity. 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:09.440 The laws of attraction is all it's concerned with is what you're saying, what you're speaking into existence. 00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:14.000 And, you know, like I said, the storms of life is gonna happen, it's gonna come. 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:24.400 Now, whether you decide to get off, get off your butt and decide I want to do something, or whether you decide just want to sit down and lick your wounds, the storm is still gonna come. 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:31.599 You know, and the best thing to be is just to, like I said, to go through it because it's not gonna last that long. 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:39.599 You ever drove down the interstate and you look above the horizon and you see nothing but dark clouds. 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:43.119 Now you're coming from sunshine, okay? 00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:47.599 But then all you see is dark clouds coming, you hear you see lightning, you hear thunder. 00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:50.960 You know you're getting ready to go through a storm, okay? 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:53.280 But that storm don't last. 00:37:54.719 --> 00:38:03.199 So, whatever storm that goes through your life, um, realize that you have a creator that's going to be there for you to help you through those things. 00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:06.719 But at the same time, you have to do yourself a favor. 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:09.599 And I really say do yourself a favor. 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:13.599 Don't be negative about your situation. 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:19.199 Be positive, speak positive into whatever the situation may be. 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.960 And again, once you come out on the other than the storm, you're gonna be better. 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:24.719 Samir, you're awesome. 00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:25.760 Well, thank you so much. 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:35.679 I mean, your thought processes, the the your delivery, the the way everything about you is just really, really, really so awesome. 00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:45.519 Um, but as we get ready to wrap up this episode, I want to give you the opportunity for you to um go and close us out. 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:51.039 And then any kind of way that you want our listeners to contact you. 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:51.920 Amazing. 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:53.119 Thank you so much, Floyd. 00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:57.920 But first for inviting me to this thing and accepting my email. 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:08.239 And I I believe this was a divine experience for me because I often go and talk about entrepreneurship, life, and products. 00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:13.760 But this is something that we were able to talk about what is life, right? 00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:17.519 I'll often go and talk about lot many different things. 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:22.559 I'm a techie and a scientist, so people believe that science is very tangible. 00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:27.679 But I believe that it's not tangible, it's how we live, it's physics. 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:32.320 But if I just have to close it out, uh feel free to reach out to me. 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.519 I think my email will be there and my LinkedIn will be there. 00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:38.000 If not, uh you can search me on LinkedIn. 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:39.199 I'm easier to find. 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:42.719 I just look like this on LinkedIn also, so it's easy. 00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:52.719 Um closing thought that I would have is I think you should take the name of this podcast also in life, which is flow with life. 00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:54.639 Don't try to fight it. 00:39:54.800 --> 00:40:00.159 It's like you are going, you will have high tide, low tide, everything. 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:03.039 But it's like sailing on an open sea. 00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:06.480 You will find the good wind, you will find the bad wind. 00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:14.400 Bad wind will teach you how to be humble during the good wind, and good wind will teach you that there will be a time when the bad wind will come. 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:20.880 But at the end of the day, uh life is a journey, it's not a one-step process. 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:29.119 And uh I hope everyone who is listening or who will listen, this would be on the internet, so it should be on eternity. 00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:51.599 I hope that and I pray that you find your purpose and you become happy or even I again I'll say the same thing where I started, it's not happiness, it's you will feel content one day that you were able to figure out something that you wake up to with a purpose and as you said, sleep with a purpose, and that's resolved. 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:53.519 Alright. 00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:07.280 Well, kings and queens, hope you got something from this powerful episode. 00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:13.679 To Samir, my brother, thank you for sharing your wisdom, intellect, and ambition with us. 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:16.400 But this is only the beginning. 00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:18.239 Thanks again. 00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:31.440 You know, there are some times in life where you have to stop being practical and become delusional, especially when it comes to your purpose, your dreams, and success in life. 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:40.800 Now, if you enjoyed this episode, please follow, like, and share with anyone that you feel don't stuck trying to find a purpose. 00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:49.199 Remember, an individual who finds his purpose will always be successful. 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.880 I am the minister, Floyd Miley.