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Hello.

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My name is Stephen Kellogg.

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I'm a professional singer and songwriter.

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When I was kid, I wanted to be Bon Jovi:

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rock and roll, money, girls,

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leg kicks, (Laughter)

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moves wearing a headset, ironically.

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It's part of that.

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But, by the time I graduated college,

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not only was I not Bon Jovi,

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but I found myself eagerly
jumping into a six-dollar-an-hour job,

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no benefits,

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working in a ten-foot-by-ten-foot
kiosk in a mall.

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So, needless to say,
there was not a lot of room

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to practice leg kicks in that environment.

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But, over time,
work became something for me

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that was like pizza or sex:

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even when it's bad, it's pretty great.

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(Laughter)

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I believe that our ability
to be satisfied with our work

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is something
that is well within our grasp.

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I don't think it's specific
to any one field.

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I don't think it's as subject
to external forces

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as we give it credit for being.

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And I think that the strategies

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or the truths that have helped me
find joy in my work

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are things that could work for anybody.

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And that's what I want
to talk to you about today.

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When I was getting ready,

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I read a study in Forbes that said

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job satisfaction in America
was at 19%. (Laughter)

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That's grim.

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I'm not sure if I totally believe that,

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but it's certainly supported my feeling

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that this might be a relevant talk.

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But even some of the more
optimistic studies that I've found

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still had it well bellow 50%,

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which should mean
that most people aren't happy

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with the work that they're doing.

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And that's a serious bummer.

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I don't think it has to be that way.

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So...

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I'm going to share some of those things.

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I know some of you guys
might be thinking,

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"Well, you sing in a rock band.

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Of course you're happy with what
you're doing." And you'd be right.

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Musicians do rate high
on the satisfaction pole.

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But I would also say to you
that the challenges that I face

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are, I think, the challenges
that we all face.

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I'm going to introduce you
to my four daughters here.

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(Audience) Aw...

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SK: Yeah... (Laughter)

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These are my favorite people in the world.

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And, over the last ten years,
I've played 1,300 concerts

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and I figured out I've spent
about four out of every seven days

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away from them.

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So, I know what it's like
to struggle with time commitments,

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and how much time we spend working

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versus doing other things.

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I would also share with you

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a job performance review that I received,

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particularly public,
in a newspaper, which says,

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"{his} music is likewise little more
than an airbrushed fabrication...

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a victim of its own gritless contrivances

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and overproduced underproduction."

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(Laughter)

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I don't even know exactly what that means,

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but it's not good.

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(Laughter)

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And I think anybody who received

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a job performance evaluation like that

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would be very disappointed.

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So, I know what that's like too.

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And, if you still don't believe

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that my struggles are your struggles,

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I will show you my tax returns

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from the first few years that I did this.

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So, alright. Let's talk about how
to be happier with the work that we do.

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The first strategy or idea:

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"Know why you're working."

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As the saying goes, measure your wealth

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not by the things you have,
but by the things you have

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for which you wouldn't take
any amount of money.

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Before my time
as an illustrious songwriter,

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I had my first job at Brooks Pharmacy.

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I was sixteen years old.

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I was a sales associate,

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which meant that I was stocking shelves,

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checking people out,

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cleaning the toilet, you know,

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whatever needed to be done,

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and not work that one would consider

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obviously fun type of stuff.

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And one day, my mom came in

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and she was waving a phone bill,
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"If you're going to keep dating

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this girl who lives 45 minutes away,

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you're going to need to pay for this."

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So, as you can see,

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I married that girl.

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I knew there was no way
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from point A, my junior prom,

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to point B, my wedding day,

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unless I could continue
that conversation with my future wife.

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I knew there was no way
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to continue that conversation,

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unless I paid that phone bill.

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When I went back to Brooks Pharmacy,

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I went back with a bounce in my step,

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because I knew why I was working.

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And I got into the habit of saying --

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this is totally true -- I'd say,

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"Welcome to Brooks, where you'll love
what we do for you." (Laughter)

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which I am not even sure
if it's one of their sayings,

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but I just... (Laughter)

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You see, you've got to know
why you're working.

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OK. The second strategy.

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"It's better to be at the bottom
of a ladder you want to climb,

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than the top of one you don't."

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I got that from The Office.

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(Laughter)

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I'm big into sayings.

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So, about three years
after I took that 6-dollar-an-hour job,

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I was selling advertising for a magazine,

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and I was doing pretty well at it.

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And I got a call to come play
at this local steakhouse.

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And the gig was such that they said,

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"We want you to play four hours."

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The pay was absurdly low.

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They made a big deal of the fact

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that I was going to be fed.

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(Laughter)

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And they asked me to wear
this really goofy shirt,

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with a steakhouse emblem on it
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So, it was not a sexy gig.

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But at the end
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I knew I was on a ladder 
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I also knew I was at the bottom
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but it was alright.

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So, whenever possible,
climb ladders worth climbing.

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Number three: "The grass
is always going to look greener."

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This is such a cliché.

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I really hesitate to use it here at TED,

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but I don't think there's actually
a better way to say this.

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We're talking about
being happy with your work,

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and I think one of the easiest ways
to be unhappy with your work

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is to sit there, looking over
your shoulder, at the other guy,

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thinking that they have it better

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and that their situation's better.

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I think that we have
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or rules of the game.

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Everybody's going to have a boss

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who doesn't always appreciate you

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as much as you wish they would.

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We're going to have coworkers

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who don't do things the way we would

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or who are just annoying, 
you know. (Laughter)

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Rarely do people get paid
what they feel they're worth.

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And, you know, sometimes,
you have too many hours,

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too little hours, you could always
do a better job, if only.

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It's fine that we have these.

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These exist at every job, at every level.

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The important thing,
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is to realize
that they exist at every level.

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Everybody's got these,
so you're not sitting there

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thinking, "Ah, the grass is really
greener on the other side."

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This picture, I'll just explain,
that's me in a van,

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about five years into my touring.

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I had it in my mind that,
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all my problems would be solved.

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One day, I got on a tour bus.

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I promptly found a bunch of new problems.

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Now, I'm back in a van,

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so I had a lot of problems.

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The bottom line is
the grass isn't always greener

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on the other side. So, alright.

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Number four: "Understand
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This is something that sounds simple,

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but I'm kind of amazed
when I talk to people about their work,

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how not keyed in it's possible to be

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to the positive impact of what you do.

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I think of the guy
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every Friday night.

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And now he knows I'm so psych to see him

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that he's got this big grin when
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But you're bringing
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non-negotiable -- to someone's house.

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(Laughter)

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It just is that way, you know.

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So, I think of my accountant,

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who takes a big scary mess of papers

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and the looming threat
of the IRS and possibly jail,

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and he turns that into, sometimes,
a tax return. (Laughter)

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I think of a realtor

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who takes in a young couple,

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who says, "We want this much house,

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and we have this much money,"

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and, somehow, they make it work.

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I could do this with every job.

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Obviously, we don't have time to do that,
but, seriously, email me,

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and I will help you find
the positive impact of your work,

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if you can't, unless you're a criminal,

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in which case -- (Laughter) --

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I can't help you there.

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(Laughter)

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This moment really came for me.

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I'd been out there -- I think I can say

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I feel at home with you.

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You know, I was trying to bolster
my ego, sell more records,

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sell more tickets, be a bigger deal.

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And I'd been on tour
and doing that for about six years.

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And I got a call to play
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in Memphis, Tennessee.

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And I went, and I played
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and parents and staff.

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And at that small concert,

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I had an "aha" moment,

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because I saw people who had

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so little to smile about

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smiling back at me.

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And I realized that this skill set
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I had developed so that people
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could have joy again.

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And I never played a gig different --

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I never played the same way, after that.

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So, key into whatever it is that you do

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that's positive, and hang on to that.

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You'll be happier with your work. OK.

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The fifth and final strategy,
or insight, or truth

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that's made work like sex for me

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is this, -- (Laughter) --

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"Maintain your integrity and core values."

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Core values are some of those buzz words,

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that you hear so much
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But I'm really talking about your soul.

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And probably the most humiliating moment
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came a couple years ago.

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It was decided I should have a hit song.

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So, I flew out to Los Angeles,

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where all hit songs come from, (Laughter)

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to work with some writers.

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And we wrote a song that was
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to Simon & Garfunkel.

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Suffice it to say we pretty much
put the hat on. (Laughter)

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And, when the song came out,

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my fans called me out on it and said,

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"You know, that song
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My four-year-old daughter
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and she said, "Daddy, Paul Simon's song
sounds like your song."

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(Laughter)

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And that was definitely,

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definitely the lowest moment of my career.

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I felt very out of touch
with what I'm about.

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The good news
is you can make those things right.

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And, in this case, I withdrew the song,

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rewrote it to be 100% mine, 
feel like mine.

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I explained as best as I could
to my fans,

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kind of how that had happened.

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And, out of the lowest moment
of my career,

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came really the proudest moment
of my career,

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because I knew exactly
who I was in that moment,

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and I could continue my mission.

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So, don't ever underestimate the power

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of keeping your integrity 
and your values in your work.

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You do these five things,

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and we are going to show
Forbes who's boss, my friends.

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(Laughter)

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So, I'm going to finish
this talk with a song.

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It's what I do.

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I'm not really known for brevity,

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and no one that's ever interviewed me

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has accused me of being too concise.

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But this opportunity to do this today

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and boil down some of why work
has been a positive thing,

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it gets me really excited.

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I hope that somebody out there

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who's not satisfied
can grab on to that and can think,

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"If I know why I'm working,

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if I climb ladders worth climbing,

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if I don't spend all my time dreaming

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that the grass is greener
on the other side,

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if I can understand
the positive impacts of my work,

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and if I can keep
my soul intact in the process,

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I'm going to get more out of my job."

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This song I'm going to leave you with

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is my final comment on job satisfaction.

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And it's the last thing
that I want to share with you.

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I've put it in this song.

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It's, your work is just your work.

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It happens to be what we spend
most of our waking hours doing,

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but it's not the whole of who you are,

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and it's just one part of your identity.

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You can switch it up,

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you can do whatever
you have to do to be happy.

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But I hope we're happy.

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This song's called "Satisfied Man".

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(Acoustic guitar)

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♪ There are some things
you never get over ♪

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♪ Whatever your parents say ♪

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♪ First on my list of these three things ♪

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♪ is the sight of my father walking away ♪

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♪ Next on my list would be heaven ♪

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♪ I already know what it's like ♪

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♪ because I fell in love
when I was sixteen ♪

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♪ with the absolute love of my life ♪

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♪ Last on my list would be losing ♪

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♪ Someone always needs to win ♪

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♪ And thumbing your nose
at the boss I suppose ♪

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♪ just feels like a beautiful thing ♪

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♪ The thing that nobody tells you ♪

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♪ you figure it out if you can ♪

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♪ There's one thing on Earth
no one can touch ♪

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♪ It's the sleep of a satisfied man ♪

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♪ Yeah, the sleep of a satisfied man ♪

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♪ And I don't know 
why I love the leaving ♪

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♪ It's not from lack of loving you ♪

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♪ You can't remember
when you stopped breathing ♪

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♪ and I can't remember it too ♪

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♪ But I'm coming home tomorrow ♪

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♪ and I wanted you to know ♪

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♪ that the part of me
that can make you smile ♪

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♪ is the same part that needed to go ♪

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♪ And the thing that nobody tells you ♪

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♪ you figure it out if you can ♪

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♪ It's that they can't interfere
or get inside here ♪

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♪ to the sleep of a satisfied man ♪

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♪ Yeah, the sleep of a satisfied man ♪

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♪ And of all the things 
I've had to learn ♪

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♪ there's just one that won't quit ♪

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♪ no matter how I try ♪

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♪ one that won't quit,
it's all that I can stand ♪

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♪ one that won't quit,
I'll never learn to say goodbye ♪

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♪ but I hope for your sakes that you can ♪

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♪ Then, on April 2nd,
the birth of my heart ♪

335
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♪ the day that the zombie
awoke with a start ♪

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♪ When I fell for Button
and she fell for me ♪

337
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♪ back in the spring in 1993 ♪

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♪ January 7th, 2005 ♪

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♪ the birth of my blood 
came fully to life ♪

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♪ Now, when I see Saint Peter
and ask for my wings ♪

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♪ leave me that memory
and the joy that it brings ♪

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♪ Because the thing 
that nobody tells you ♪

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♪ you figure it out if you can ♪

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♪ it's the things 
that you never get over ♪

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♪ that build the character of a man ♪

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♪ And if heaven, 
and family, and children ♪

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♪ are what's left to me when I die ♪

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♪ then, I hope for your sake
that you're better than me ♪

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♪ at learning to say goodbye ♪

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♪ Oh, if heaven, 
and family, and children ♪

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♪ are what's left to the race that I ran ♪

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♪ then, I'll quietly slip
to this slumbering peace ♪

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♪ of the sleep of a satisfied man ♪

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♪ Yeah, the sleep of a satisfied man ♪

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♪ Oh, the sleep of a satisfied... ♪

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♪ And may you all be satisfied ♪

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(Cheers) (Applause)

358
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Thank you all very much.

359
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Thank you so much, everybody.
Thank you.

360
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Thank you.