I was interested in finding meaning or purpose in life. I found the following articles on finding purpose:
- http://tinybuddha.com/blog/what-you-need-to-live-a-life-of-purpose/
- http://www.basicgrowth.com/finding-your-purpose/
- http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/01/how-to-discover-your-life-purpose-in-about-20-minutes/ - recipe to finding one's
- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-happy-life-may-not-be-a-meaningful-life/: As per the article:
- Happiness and meaning in life may not go always together
- Giving creates more meaning than taking while the latter (taking) creates more happiness. Spending more time with friends creates more happiness than meaning.
- Tasks which don't make us happy can give meaning (cooking, cleaning driving etc).
- Quote from it: "More broadly, the findings suggest that pure happiness is about getting what we want in life—whether through people, money, or life circumstances. Meaningfulness, in contrast, seems to have more to do with giving, effort, and sacrifice." I wonder whether Happiness is related to Venus and Meaning to Saturn. Interesting thing is that Ayn Rand would have felt that meaning and happiness would always go together. But then being an N (as in MBTI) she would believe in theory even perhaps when data is doesn't fit the theory.
- https://blog.bufferapp.com/happiness-is-not-enough-why-a-life-without-meaning-will-make-you-sick
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