How To Live Freely In A Goal-Obsessed World - Anne-Laure Le Cunff - #957

What's the problem with people obsessing over finding their purpose, in your opinion? It makes them miserable. When we try to find our purpose, we feel like if we haven't found it yet, something is wrong with our life. Our life doesn't have meaning. We also spend a lot of time comparing our life to the life of others.

We wonder, why is it that this person seems like she knows where she's going? Why is this person so excited about what they're doing? Why do they have a passion? Why is it that I don't have my purpose? I don't have my passion?

And because of that, we become so obsessed with figuring out what is my purpose that we end up not giving ourselves the time and uh the possibility to explore and maybe figuring out in the end what that is. What is a better way to look at creating a direction in life then? A better way to figuring out your purpose is just to experiment. It's uh thinking like a scientist. When a scientist wants to learn something new, they don't start with a specific outcome in mind.

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