Purpose

Our society is brilliant at producing, but unnatural in what it demands of us. It has built an atmosphere where endless output is the norm, and where we treat distraction as medicine for its effects. Of course, I don’t see another way society could have grown this much, and I wouldn’t desire it to be any other way. But we can’t ignore the consequences: the toll on its people and their minds. ...

People treat “purpose” like magic. Like one day it’ll just click. That’s childish. Purpose is found through action. Most people who say they don’t know their purpose or feel lost, have done almost nothing to find it. Purpose hides inside your talents and interests, but it won’t show itself until you work for it. Explore: read books, take courses, try things that interest you. Act: turn curiosity into work. Write, create, volunteer, build. ...