The Value of Brainstorming is Asking the Question | Simon Sinek

It's not an accident when creativity happens. We need to give our minds time to access our own subconscious by scheduling non-negotiable downtime.
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Simon is an unshakable optimist who believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Simon teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to help build a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single day feeling inspired, feel safe at work, and feel fulfilled at the end of the day, Simon is leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them. Simon is the author of multiple best-selling books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, Together is Better, and Find Your Why. His new book, The Infinite Game, will be released in 2019.
Simon’s WHY: To inspire people to do the things that inspire them so that, together, each of us can change our world for the better.
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  • @orangealk
    @orangealk4 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic Simon, as usual. Cheers.

  • @sooshedances
    @sooshedances4 жыл бұрын

    YES doing nothing is sometimes actually doing so much!!

  • @jonpjoyner

    @jonpjoyner

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jessica Marie Baumgartner morning iio8888888888iiviiiii8888ii

  • @shameem2146

    @shameem2146

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ha

  • @dannythedominican6998

    @dannythedominican6998

    2 жыл бұрын

    So glad I do it for 24 hours then

  • @armitaraz
    @armitaraz4 жыл бұрын

    That is so true! I was working on a project and stuck in solving a problem for days. Suddenly I decided to focus my mind on something completely different, even something in which I'm not interested! So I got out and went to a poet's kind of meeting. During two hours I tried so hard to understand what they were saying or talking about which was a complete failure to me! Then when I came back home and sat in front of my computer to resume my project, guess what? All the answers I needed for solving the problems came up in an instant moment! Magical, right! And this is what I've learned! When you're mind is stuck in something, concentrate on something different, free your mind from it and give it some space. It will work!

  • @djoakeydoakey1076

    @djoakeydoakey1076

    4 жыл бұрын

    Doing other things could actually find answers which you wouldn't think would be relevant. Archimedes eureka moment when he took a bath.

  • @daliapamela

    @daliapamela

    4 жыл бұрын

    I know what you mean! Actually, me best ideas came to me when I'm in the shower. XD

  • @travisk.corley1114
    @travisk.corley11144 жыл бұрын

    I love Sinek for what he do. I think it's crazy that he has to tell us to take personal time and let our brains do it's natural job

  • @NowInAus

    @NowInAus

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s a very privileged place to preach from, eh? The concept of workday downtime is alien to most of us. I often wish that Simon could refocus away from elite business and into worlds such as education and local government.

  • @jimdevalk
    @jimdevalk3 жыл бұрын

    I love Simon and so does the interviewer. She looks at him like she wants to sit on his face...

  • @dielaughing73

    @dielaughing73

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe she did

  • @1AmSwapnil
    @1AmSwapnil4 жыл бұрын

    He's superb! Noticing this wonderful person I learn - work on yourself and everyone will start noticing

  • @peterchin7796
    @peterchin77964 жыл бұрын

    first of all, thanks to Simon for the inspirational sharing. noticed the comments about the interviewer, personally I actually enjoy interviewing brilliant folks like Simon. To avoid the situation she's facing in this session, there's few ways to prepare for a good interview session. One is to communicate with the interviewee before the event, on the core message that he wants to share over that particular occasion, and we as interviewer can make preparation around that point of focus. Another area we can prepare is to communicate with event organizer and get a grasp of what kind of audience would be attending, and what's their expectations, that provides another layer of preparation. With someone like Simon, its best not to get in his way while he's doing the talking, but instead, when he's pausing to begin a new sentence, interviewer can take that opportunity to briefly summarise what's just been said, to help audience to refresh their memory 😊

  • @suhasdeshpande4841
    @suhasdeshpande48414 жыл бұрын

    Awesome, evertime I listen to him, it touches me deep inside. Incredible speaker.

  • @bruv4934

    @bruv4934

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gay

  • @s.foudehi1419

    @s.foudehi1419

    2 жыл бұрын

    Butter

  • @douhanezar4912
    @douhanezar49124 жыл бұрын

    exactly as I expect, thank's mister simon for the advices, really you are the best of the best .

  • @InfiniteHarmony77
    @InfiniteHarmony773 жыл бұрын

    Completely simple and organised ideas. Thanks for sharing.

  • @attifarkas
    @attifarkas4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video and ideas, I hope people are going to break free of the digital chocolate that their phone is providing. During brainstorming people can generate ideas that they would never have just by thinking on their own. I love your videos. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

  • @fatmabahri1315
    @fatmabahri13154 жыл бұрын

    Spot on!

  • @raph009
    @raph0094 жыл бұрын

    That explains a lot... I used to be super creative and eventually, when I moved in my own apartment, I started spending more and more time on the net, then I started getting more and more tensed the more I took my freetime to browse the web over and over.... Thanks! :)

  • @aliyankhan8592

    @aliyankhan8592

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tha ks for sharing, useful👍🏻

  • @ExitPlanner
    @ExitPlanner4 жыл бұрын

    good job on the personal time... it's about valuing ourselves... that resonates with me

  • @jianpuriammei1881
    @jianpuriammei18814 жыл бұрын

    Powerful...🙏

  • @jonn093
    @jonn0934 жыл бұрын

    i loved this video!

  • @codacreator6162
    @codacreator61624 жыл бұрын

    Finally! Someone saying what I've been trying to tell people in my life for years! Anyone who is creative, who writes, already knew this. Where the phrase, "sleep on it" came from, too. I do my most creative thinking when I'm idle (yeah, sometimes in the shower, sometimes doing dishes). Einstein was a practitioner of just sitting and thinking. The best literature on the planet was not written after work. It was the only thing. Ask Stephen King how many of his novels would exist in their current form if he still had to teach to pay the bills?

  • @cassiestevens8382
    @cassiestevens8382 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks😌💓

  • @divyamurugesan5557
    @divyamurugesan55574 жыл бұрын

    Merry Christmas Simon 🎅🎅🎄🎄😁😁

  • @lexleonmusic
    @lexleonmusic4 жыл бұрын

    Indeed, it's the best thing in the world

  • @auroraarcturusambassador8042
    @auroraarcturusambassador80423 жыл бұрын

    Hilarious!!! "I can watch a movie" saw this story exactly the right time. Just averted a meltdown. Thankyou for sharing 😃

  • @thetruth3322
    @thetruth33224 жыл бұрын

    True, true,true.

  • @soniahachemi4025
    @soniahachemi40254 жыл бұрын

    We live strangers until we meet those who are able to inspire our creativity.. Those who share our values WELL SAID AS USUAL SIR 💐 BTW Merry Christmas 🙏

  • @hleet
    @hleet4 жыл бұрын

    So true

  • @EVOLVEBRAIN
    @EVOLVEBRAIN3 жыл бұрын

    awsome conversation

  • @abc111xyz
    @abc111xyz4 жыл бұрын

    This is also sooo helpful for love relationships.

  • @abc111xyz

    @abc111xyz

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Jeronimo Tamayo aaaah... this is the result of your personal brainstorming ?. I feel we are brainstorming in a global collective. I agree.... Living own life on the cost of others must be stopped now This is modern slavery. And when I've identified this feeling in me (within job and personal love relationship)... it was in a sudden soooo clear and easy to get my LIFE PURPOSE. Be a rebellion and a loving, caring and serving human. And in terms of DP... no... no death... I feel also compassion with his painful narcistic behaviour and childhood traumata... he did not learn how to love.

  • @PositiveManifestation-Love
    @PositiveManifestation-Love3 жыл бұрын

    Love From Saginaw MI

  • @amielignacio7814
    @amielignacio78144 жыл бұрын

    Idol!

  • @aws2739
    @aws27393 жыл бұрын

    The idea is great but Those SNAPS are even greater 😁 Much love

  • @zaheeriqbal755
    @zaheeriqbal7554 жыл бұрын

    Matchless

  • @ragavkrishna9143
    @ragavkrishna91434 жыл бұрын

    I think Simon is a Messiah...:)

  • @5croobius
    @5croobius4 жыл бұрын

    Doing nothing on a regular basis is something I can achieve

  • @FlavioA194

    @FlavioA194

    4 жыл бұрын

    Then you will achieve nothing

  • @jimdevalk

    @jimdevalk

    3 жыл бұрын

    A noble goal my friend. A noble goal.

  • @mrsonepro
    @mrsonepro4 жыл бұрын

    love simon the interviewer interrupts at times but that's fine :D

  • @selfelements8037
    @selfelements80374 жыл бұрын

    2:32 Beautiful. "Music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between". Wonder.

  • @CC-mj3zq

    @CC-mj3zq

    4 жыл бұрын

    Amazing, I was thinking the same thing during this! I heard Sting once,say that music is just silence surrounded by bits of sound.

  • @krantzyboursiquot2647

    @krantzyboursiquot2647

    2 жыл бұрын

    Freakin yea! For me in my limited experience with music composition, I have found that music composition is the composing of silence, the arrangement of silence.

  • @jimallen8186
    @jimallen8186 Жыл бұрын

    This also ties to your other point with efficiency versus innovation.

  • @rys1968
    @rys19684 жыл бұрын

    Simon will save the humanity from smartphones!

  • @jimallen8186
    @jimallen8186 Жыл бұрын

    Nimitz played tennis, Marshall rode horses… look into Blackett’s time in the Cavendish per Stephen Budiansky’s book. Sid Meier wrote of being creative on vacation.

  • @matthewnorris203
    @matthewnorris2032 жыл бұрын

    ❤️❤️

  • @antoniodossantos5960
    @antoniodossantos59603 жыл бұрын

    Thanks....Simón. El inmigrante venezolano Escritor/Writer

  • @AdalydGracia
    @AdalydGracia3 жыл бұрын

    I do the same thing. When I got sick no one asked how I was.

  • @trishabossladyqm4330
    @trishabossladyqm43304 жыл бұрын

    She is undressing him with her eyes. It's distracting him. Not the best interviewer lol

  • @monnaojangsenye3095
    @monnaojangsenye30954 жыл бұрын

    I like this conversation because there are in themselves not in a conversation, image being like this guys, living your words to reality

  • @mietonen
    @mietonen3 жыл бұрын

    Hi! In the public bus, they will probaply always start to fullfill to "superposition". - And it will change as the bus will fullfill. - Xx

  • @antoniodossantos5960
    @antoniodossantos59603 жыл бұрын

    Give time to your creativity@

  • @daliapamela
    @daliapamela4 жыл бұрын

    OMG! That is soooooo true. And I guess that's the reason why I don't have enough friends I can spend time with. :( I need to be less time in my phone.

  • @kentatakao6863

    @kentatakao6863

    4 жыл бұрын

    OMG! That is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo true

  • @tashhashimi9483
    @tashhashimi94833 жыл бұрын

    this reminds me of Joe Rogan and Lean Remini interview

  • @CONTEMN_Topic
    @CONTEMN_TopicАй бұрын

    Fast for a couple of days. Realize nothing matters and see how your actions shape your life. Things happen when you give up and unlearn everything to understand.

  • @CC-mj3zq
    @CC-mj3zq4 жыл бұрын

    I purposely leave my phone in the car when I'm out.

  • @leedon4433
    @leedon44334 жыл бұрын

    Good to leave phone during brain storming ; sometimes however the chair person wants to have the results right after the meeting:(

  • @tahah.babikir7698
    @tahah.babikir76984 жыл бұрын

    I agree with the shower part, only if you have a question though. Out of the shower identify the questions.

  • @caryagos6112
    @caryagos6112 Жыл бұрын

    It still stuns me how Simon could say that he isn't smart.

  • @re_flow
    @re_flow2 жыл бұрын

    The lady would definitely jump on him if they were alone lmao

  • @dawidradomski1773
    @dawidradomski17734 жыл бұрын

    Anyone @Simon Sinek f.e., could give me a source for that meters thing about brain?

  • @frankjackal
    @frankjackal4 жыл бұрын

    She is droooooooling...omg

  • @YerSiNia14
    @YerSiNia144 жыл бұрын

    Fking inspiring. Im gonna stop using phone while walking and minimize games in my phone

  • @TomRauhe
    @TomRauhe4 жыл бұрын

    She is so into him it's hard to watch

  • @kabelolive

    @kabelolive

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @cdprasad4u
    @cdprasad4u4 жыл бұрын

    i liked the the video but i found some thing is she flirting Simon!!! sorry for that her eyes are expressive in such a way.some of the behavior physiologist know what i said.thank you

  • @armitaraz

    @armitaraz

    4 жыл бұрын

    Come On!!! Every lady wants to flirt with Simone. Don't you think so?! They can't help it!!! :)

  • @jaws78

    @jaws78

    4 жыл бұрын

    She totally is.

  • @alcidesferreira2616
    @alcidesferreira26164 жыл бұрын

    The full interview? Where?

  • @alcidesferreira2616

    @alcidesferreira2616

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jessica Marie Baumgartner I have read all of his books

  • @dawidradomski1773

    @dawidradomski1773

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Jessica Marie Baumgartner where, in which book, did he mention that meters thing? I need a source for my trainee.

  • @JoeM444
    @JoeM4443 жыл бұрын

    So for me it’s not that I don’t trust my employees it’s that I have to check my phone because I can’t take one day and not have them call me and say what do I do here?, How do I do this? I have been working for years now to make processes so easy that anyone can do it specifically to stop this from happening but there is a lot more work that needs to be done.

  • @adeceptikon
    @adeceptikon4 жыл бұрын

    How would I watch your videos without our Cellphones, Simon??? 😔

  • @adeceptikon

    @adeceptikon

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Jessica Marie Baumgartner 😊😊😊

  • @TheCombatartist
    @TheCombatartist4 жыл бұрын

    If I could click on a “fricken” kickas@ symbol I would! I wish I could start my career all over again as a creative designer (coulda,woulda,shoulda) They need to teach these ideas to art and design students, who are taught to design and create, but not their careers and lives. How many middle aged or Seniors does one see in the design world? Not many....

  • @antoniodossantos5960
    @antoniodossantos59603 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful....Question?? » Brainstorming@

  • @Just_Samson
    @Just_Samson4 жыл бұрын

    She looks like she wants to eat him. 😳

  • @SansVirus-dz3bi

    @SansVirus-dz3bi

    4 жыл бұрын

    hahahaha

  • @Shrejo33

    @Shrejo33

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not her fault. He is amazing!!😁

  • @timjamboula4545

    @timjamboula4545

    4 жыл бұрын

    recognize this as well and was going through the comments to see, if I was the only one haahaha

  • @nkosiguduza2131

    @nkosiguduza2131

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@timjamboula4545 Haha

  • @trishabossladyqm4330

    @trishabossladyqm4330

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @TariqAmazin
    @TariqAmazin4 жыл бұрын

    whats her name

  • @MikkiPike
    @MikkiPike4 жыл бұрын

    Please get rid of the ending song for these short clips. It, to me, is insufferable. Really though, you're doing great work! I'm loving every word that you say. I'm not a fan of capitalism in general, and going backward isn't necessarily a way to progress, but you're definitely on to SOMETHING. Keep it up! ^-^

  • @victorsykes5334
    @victorsykes53344 жыл бұрын

    Respect the man! The thumbnail is BS though.

  • @scotttovey

    @scotttovey

    4 жыл бұрын

    How is the thumbnail BS?

  • @victorsykes5334

    @victorsykes5334

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@scotttovey it says creativity is not in demand. When it is absolutely essential. It should say something like. One secret to unlocking your creativity. I like his content though.

  • @scotttovey

    @scotttovey

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@victorsykes5334 You misread that. It says: "Creativity is NOT ON-DEMAND" which is true. It is very rare to be able to just turn creativity on and is near impossible to do so when someone is demanding it of you in a last minute scenario. Such situations actually tend to turn creativity off because of the unwarranted stress the individual is putting on you which is often followed by you getting angry and the idiot.

  • @victorsykes5334

    @victorsykes5334

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@scotttovey LOL! that's funny! How embarrassing. I should have read that slower😶

  • @scotttovey

    @scotttovey

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@victorsykes5334 That's nothing. I once walked past a sign, read it and after three or four steps thought:that makes absolutely no sense at all. I went back and reread the sign and realized that I had put a completely unrelated word in place of another. I didn't replace a letter, I replaced a whole word. Yeah, those quick read glances can give you some really strange messages. 😏

  • @cellbiologyshorts9105
    @cellbiologyshorts91052 жыл бұрын

    Imagine having a job where you could arbitrarily block out thee hours on the offchance I might come up with something. His colleagues must love that!

  • @tahah.babikir7698
    @tahah.babikir76984 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate the reasoning behind the close proximity but its a tiny bit distractive...

  • @BasicLearnings
    @BasicLearnings4 жыл бұрын

    Summary: 1. Schedule your personal Time. Be respectful of things that matter too you. It’s your time! Take control of it. Don’t let anyone else fill it with bullsh*t. 2. Ideas don’t happen so random that you think. 3. Subconscious brain- gut decisions. 4. Ask the question to yourself and let the brain work on it over a longer period of time. 5. You need to sit down and meet each other. Talk together and find real solutions. 6. All people you meet are potential friends. 7. Search for good conversations where ideas happen

  • @tahah.babikir7698
    @tahah.babikir76984 жыл бұрын

    What does this have to do with creativity is not on demand....

  • @senseivictoriawhitfield3868
    @senseivictoriawhitfield38684 жыл бұрын

    “Our subconscious brains have access to the equivalent of 11 acres of information. The value of the brainstorming is not to solve the problem, it’s to ask the question.” I look forward to the day that Simon and his team learns how to do Shamanic Vision Journey meditation. It takes what he just said to a whole new level! 😍👍🎉

  • @ivan1196
    @ivan11963 жыл бұрын

    Yo lady stop interrupting him and just listen!

  • @redlionplumbing
    @redlionplumbing4 жыл бұрын

    Our God given imaginations are a tool of constant evaluation and incubation that lead to creation. Feed your mind with prayer and His Word, and live a renewed life. We're all walking each other Home. Have a great day!

  • @cece_is_me6268
    @cece_is_me62683 жыл бұрын

    I wish the interviewer would just be quiet and let him talk. Jeez!

  • @mohdhanif1018
    @mohdhanif10184 жыл бұрын

    Mind is silly, for a while I thought the lady is dating Simon sinek

  • @hendrikmoons8218
    @hendrikmoons82183 жыл бұрын

    I wish as a factory worker, blue collar to you Americans, that I could do that. Sorry boss, it's not happening... I'm doing something for me, you NOT included.

  • @tahah.babikir7698
    @tahah.babikir76984 жыл бұрын

    I wonder what his wife is thinking...

  • @upulaherath7204
    @upulaherath72043 жыл бұрын

    Best way to flirt a lady!

  • @susanreed666
    @susanreed6664 жыл бұрын

    She is a horrible interviewer

  • @jeslovesjesus

    @jeslovesjesus

    4 жыл бұрын

    Susan Reed totally!!!

  • @andreylebedenko1260
    @andreylebedenko12604 жыл бұрын

    She still needs to learn how to conduct an interview.

  • @peterchin7796

    @peterchin7796

    4 жыл бұрын

    I can see that she's struggling to keep up, it could be that she's overwhelmed, or she didn't do enough preparation beforehand

  • @dixitgondhia7193

    @dixitgondhia7193

    4 жыл бұрын

    Agree. She needs to work on body language and manners. May be that us how she does her job usually.

  • @thejusvs3653
    @thejusvs36533 жыл бұрын

    Why she's doing this👀🤤 Infront of camera and audience ?

  • @johnedelmann6711
    @johnedelmann67112 жыл бұрын

    This is all assuming you are a CEO at a company.

  • @ajazz102
    @ajazz1024 жыл бұрын

    I shouldnt be watching this video right now

  • @SirMuchDies
    @SirMuchDies4 жыл бұрын

    That interviewer is terrible. Just be quiet and let him do his think.

  • @Pudelbirne
    @Pudelbirne3 жыл бұрын

    His explanation of how the brain works, is way off

  • @empirerex2837
    @empirerex28374 жыл бұрын

    stop interrupting the man dammit

  • @arnoldwolfstein
    @arnoldwolfstein2 жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one finding the distance with interviewer is irritating? She leans too close towards Simon.