Purpose
What You Were Made To Do
Do you ever wonder who you are and what your purpose in life is? I hope so. It would be a tragedy if you didn’t. As far as we can tell, to wonder about who you are and your purpose in life is a distinctly human ability. Unlike all other
The Most Important Idea
Humans are believing machines. Who are we? Where did we come from? What is worth pursuing in life? What should we avoid? What, if anything, gives life meaning and purpose? What does success in life look like? How does life work best? How should we relate to others? Everything we
Solzhenitsyn & The Meaning of Life
Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn was a captain in the Soviet Army during World War 2 and also spent eight years in the Soviet gulag prison system. More importantly for us today, he is the author of one of the most important books ever written – The Gulag Archipelago (link to an abridged
Significance In The Small Things
Sometimes we can feel like it’s only the big things that matter and if we want our lives to matter we need to prioritize and give our lives to the big things. We can live our entire life believing that our significance is “somewhere out there.” I love that this
The Paradox of Purpose
The Bible has a lot to share with us on the purpose of life from it’s combined centuries of experience and there seems to be a paradox that runs through these insights – a paradox on how we are to hold the purpose of our lives. The paradox of purpose
A Meaningful Life Through Science
Found on page 438 of historian and Professor Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (underlines mine, italics his): So our medieval ancestors were happy because they found meaning to life in collective delusions about the afterlife? Yes. As long as nobody punctured their fantasies, why shouldn’t they?
New Year, New Purpose
I am a results-oriented individual. Around most New Year’s I put a lot of thought and time into the things that I will be resolute in accomplishing in the coming year. Many times this takes the form of lists of stepped-out smaller goals for reaching larger goals that are best