How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (with Arthur C. Brooks)

Yeah, your purpose, your destiny is to love. My destiny is to love and and I, of course, would die for my kids and die for for beliefs and and as you say, hopefully for friends and and your co-host. And my co-host. Podcast co-host and That's right. I'm Rufus Griskom and I'm Caleb Bissinger.

And this is the next big idea. Today. The meaning of life. I like how you're really underpromising there. Yeah, I want to manage expectations, but we are just going to try to explain why we're here today.

I mean, this is just a breezy topic, you know, for philosophers, theologians, poets. But our guest today says this question isn't just a chin-strumming luxury for men and women of leisure. It's a central part of the daily challenge we all have to stay sane. Because if your life starts to feel meaningless, it's not just spiritually inconvenient. It turns out this makes us anxious, compulsive, lonely, and weirdly vulnerable to conspiracy theories.

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