As you may know, there is both an online version and a printable version (both free) of the Meaning Assessment that is found in The Meaning of Life: A guide to finding your life's purpose. The assessments are meant to give you a pre-book baseline so that you can take it again afterwards and check for post-book improvement in your grasp of the eigh...
Read MoreWhile it might not seem like the most interesting topic to define terms, but anyone looking for the meaning of life or more meaning in life needs to define what that means to them. As simple as it might seem, there are many things that you might mean with that question. As a result, you might get advice that you don't find useful because you are...
Read MoreInstilling your life with a greater sense of meaning and purpose—it sounds like a monumental feat. Most people think that they have to identify a "moonshot" goal like curing cancer to give their lives significance. Usually, this process involves some personal or societal judgment as to what is meaningful to pursue. However, meaning is subjective...
Read MoreIkigai is a term that roughly translates into "the meaning of life" due to its belief that it originates from words meaning “to live” and “the realization of what one hopes for”. While this is a word that has many possible interpretation, in this post we're going to break down the two popular ways that people understand/define this concept and wha...
Read MoreIn The Meaning of Life: A guide to finding your life's purpose, I explain in detail how life works and how you can use that information to figure your purpose out for yourself. However, it doesn't mention another major question, "Who am I?" Because I wanted to keep the book focused on helping you figure out your journey, I didn't spend any time c...
Read MoreYou may experience down periods in your life where you wonder what it all means. A tragic loss, a major failure, or a brutal setback can deflate your enthusiasm and hope for your future and success. Alternatively, you could just enter a lull period where you lose your zest for life and motivation. Let that deflation consume you, however, and you...
Read MoreMany people ask about the intrinsic meaning of life and the universe. Here, we're assuming that they mean inherent purpose or significance. This is a difficult question since if they mean it literally (i.e., literally in the universe), then the answer is no. If they mean ingrained in all living organisms (i.e., in all life), then the answer is y...
Read MoreSomeone on Quora asked me to play the three-word game with the meaning of life, so here it is—the meaning of life in as few words as possible: In one word: Growth. In three words: Growth through experience. In the minimum number required to explain all eight of the components I identified:
Read MoreWhile I hope that you are living a happy, fulfilling, meaningful life, it is possible that you are not. In either case, an effective way to ensure that you can get or stay on the right path is by looking at the most common reasons why people might not feel a sense of meaning and purpose in life. Hopefully, learning from others struggles can make...
Read MoreSo, let me get my own personal experience out of the way first: I graduated from college a semester early because I took 18–19 credits for 7 semesters. So, without a job lined up (I wasn’t expecting to graduate until May but crossed my credit requirements in December), I spent months applying for jobs and not really doing much else. Out of the bl...
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