Discovering your why, how, and what can lead to a passionate pursuit of improvement and impact.
Living your YOS (why, how, and what) aligns your actions with your core motivations, leading to long-term success and happiness.
Understanding the why behind our actions can provide clarity, confidence, and direction, leading to better decisions and finding true passion.
Deep dives
The Power of Discovering Your Why, How, and What
Discovering your why, how, and what can be a transformative process in finding your passion and purpose in life. By understanding these core motivations, individuals can align their actions and decisions with their true selves. The Y Institute, founded by Gary Sanchez, offers a comprehensive assessment that helps individuals uncover their YOS (why, how, and what). The assessment uses over 1,500 questions to accurately determine an individual's motivations. The nine Y archetypes, such as 'contribute', 'trust', 'make sense', and 'better way', inform individuals about their unique characteristics and strengths.
The Power of Living Your YOS
When individuals align their actions with their YOS, they experience a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Living their why, how, and what leads to a passionate pursuit of improvement and impact. By understanding their YOS, individuals can make decisions that are in line with their core motivations, leading to long-term success and happiness.
Applying the YOS in Personal and Professional Life
Discovering and living their YOS enables individuals to find their passion and succeed in personal and professional domains. It helps in decision-making, allows individuals to communicate their core motivations effectively, and provides a strong foundation for personal and professional growth. By harnessing their unique YOS, individuals can create a meaningful impact in the lives of others and find fulfillment in their endeavors.
The Power of Knowing Your Why
Understanding the why behind our actions can provide clarity, confidence, and direction in both personal and professional settings. When we know our why, we can make better decisions and find our true passion. Gary Sanchez, founder of the Why Institute, explains that the why is housed in the limbic part of our brain, which drives behavior and decision-making. By exploring the nine different why's, such as make sense, better way, and simplify, we can gain deeper self-awareness and understand how others think and communicate. This knowledge can be a game-changer in leadership, teamwork, and overall personal growth.
The Benefits and Challenges of Each Why
Each of the nine why's, including trust, better way, and clarify, brings unique strengths and challenges. People with the why of trust value loyalty, but may struggle with trust issues due to past experiences. Better way individuals are innovative and constantly seek improvement, but may become overwhelmed by too many options and struggle with decision-making. Understanding these specific characteristics allows for better communication, conflict resolution, and effective collaboration among team members. The YOS discovery assessment offered by the Why Institute helps individuals and organizations delve deeper into their why, how, and what, unlocking greater self-awareness and empowering personal and professional growth.
Gary Sanchez has helped many exceptional leaders find their core purpose and motivation. He is the founder of the Why Institute, where he and his team have worked with hundreds of thousands of individuals–and several Fortune 500 Companies–to help them discover their core motivation in life. Gary and his team also developed the nine Why archetypes and the Why Assessment.
In this episode of the Elevate Podcast, Gary joins host Robert Glazer to discuss the Why archetypes, the importance of finding your Why and how you can discover your most important motivation in life.
