He was complimentary of our workand sounded genuinely enthused about the opportunity. I thanked Darren for his kind words and acknowledged his
zeal. I then quizzed him on why he was so passionate about sales training?

His response was short, ‘I just want to help people.’He then expressed that his current job was not rewarding. He was despondent and noted that at his age he was looking for the next stage in his career, one with meaning.
To clarify, I drilled a little deeper, ‘So you have a true passion for helping people?’

Darren blurted, ‘Absolutely!’ With my next question I queried, ‘So what else are you doing to help people?’ ‘Ah, what do you mean…’ he responded.
I continued, ‘You have a passion for helping others, I just want to get a sense of the things you’re doing to help people, to give me a better understanding of where your passion rests?’

‘I’m not following?’ he resounded. ‘How else do you help people?’ I added.
‘Well that’s why I want to work for BOOM!, so I can help people.’ His retort told me everything.

As you can imagine the call curtailed rather quickly from here, I handed Darren some words of advice (he took these reluctantly) and then went on his way.

What’s interesting about Darren and others similar, is this: sure, they may want a job – but it’s not because they want to help people. They’ll help alright, but only if there’s a form of financial or personal gain. We know this because if their desire was genuine and strong, they’d already be contributing to others or society in some way without the need to be compensated for it.

Darren’s not coaching kids in his spare time, you won’t see him down at the local soup kitchen on a frosty evening, nor sight him volunteering in his local community. He’s certainly not aligned with a worthy cause. So, what is he doing to ‘help people’?

What Darren is completely missing, is an understanding of the world’s most valuable currency. A currency that doesn’t need an exchange rate. A currency that is universal. A currency that supersedes all others. If he truly wants to ‘help people’, he is already richer than he knows, all he has to do is get out there and share his currency.

This is the essence of the advice I offered Darren. However, I also offered him an opportunity and that was, if he was actively doing some of these things within the next 12 months and still wanted a job at BOOM!, he could call me to explore. Regrettably, I don’t think I’ll be hearing from him any time soon.

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