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Dr. David Viscott - "The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by the Great News Podcast because good news should be
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  heard available where all fine podcasts are found.
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  But just to make it easy for you, I've left a link in the
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  show notes. You've probably seen a version
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  of today's quote floating around online, most often misattributed
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  to Picasso or Shakespeare. But the person who actually said
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  it was Doctor David Biscott, American psychiatrist, UCLA
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  professor, best selling author and one of the first
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  psychiatrists in history to bring therapy into mainstream
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  radio, where he helped millions of people find clarity about
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  their lives, he wrote. The purpose of life is to
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  discover your gift. The work of life is to develop
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  it. The meaning of life is to give
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  your gift away. Three sentences and three
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  stages, and together they form the most complete answer to the
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  question humanity has been asking since the beginning.
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  Why are we here? Most people spend their whole
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  lives stuck in the first stage searching, trying to figure out
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  what they're actually here to do, what their gift is.
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  And that search can feel overwhelming, even paralyzing,
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  when you're looking at it as one enormous question to solve all
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  at once. But this God breaks it into
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  something manageable. Discover, then develop, then
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  give away. Notice that the purpose of life,
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  the reason you're here, is discovery, not achievement, not
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  success. Simply finding the thing, the
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  thing that is uniquely yours to offer.
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  That's the beginning of everything.
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  Then comes the part most people skip.
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  The work of life is to develop it, because a discovered gift
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  that isn't developed stays mere potential forever.
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  Biscott spent his entire career pressing people toward clarity
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  and direct action. He believed the gap between
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  knowing something and doing something about it was where
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  most human suffering lived. You don't just find your gift
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  and wait for it to matter. You work on it.
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  You refine it. You develop it through practice,
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  failure, repetition, and commitment.
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  And then the line that elevates everything, The meaning of life
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  is to give your gift away. Not sell it, not hoard it, not
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  protect it, Give it Because a gift that never reaches anyone
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  else hasn't fulfilled its purpose.
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  Meaning isn't found in the having, it's found in the
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  giving. So here's the question.
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  Where are you in Viscot's three stages right now?
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  Still discovering? Keep looking.
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  It might be closer than you think.
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  Developing. Keep working.
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  The gift gets sharper with every repetition.
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  Or are you holding on to something that's ready to be
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  given away because the meaning is waiting at the end of that
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  third stage and the world needs what only you have to give?
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.