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Two Golden Meaning Opportunities: Pleasure and Contentment
This is true of every meaning opportunity: if it would be unethical to seize it, you forego seizing it. Better to forego a feeling than to disappoint yourself!
This is true of every meaning opportunity: if it would be unethical to seize it, you forego seizing it. Better to forego a feeling than to disappoint yourself!
Three Golden Meaning Opportunities: Service, Good Works, and Ethical Action
When isn’t a good moment to be of some help?
When isn’t a good moment to be of some help?
Two Golden Meaning Opportunities: Achievement and Excellence
Excellence and achievement can be the gifts that keep on giving, existential events that reward you long after the work is done.
Excellence and achievement can be the gifts that keep on giving, existential events that reward you long after the work is done.
One Golden Meaning Opportunity: Appreciation
Life feels more meaningful when you appreciate what can be appreciated: a juicy apple, a day of rest, an accomplishment, a child at play, a summer breeze.
Life feels more meaningful when you appreciate what can be appreciated: a juicy apple, a day of rest, an accomplishment, a child at play, a summer breeze.
One Golden Meaning Opportunity: Self-Actualization
Even just having that conversation with ourselves, about what manifesting and actualizing our potential might look like, might start the meaning ball rolling.
Even just having that conversation with ourselves, about what manifesting and actualizing our potential might look like, might start the meaning ball rolling.
One Golden Meaning Opportunity: Experimentation
Learning the art of getting meaning right.
Learning the art of getting meaning right.
One Golden Meaning Opportunity: Stewardship
We tend to feel better if we point our moral compass in the direction of care for and attention to the world in which we live, the creatures of this world, and the ideas and institutions that maintain civilization at its best.
We tend to feel better if we point our moral compass in the direction of care for and attention to the world in which we live, the creatures of this world, and the ideas and institutions that maintain civilization at its best.
Your Golden Meaning Opportunities
How to create that feeling of meaning.
How to create that feeling of meaning.
Meaning as Nature’s Motivational Tool
Nature needs us to motivate ourselves if we are to survive, and the feeling of meaning is one of her tools.
Nature needs us to motivate ourselves if we are to survive, and the feeling of meaning is one of her tools.
Robbed of Purpose
Can we operate “without purpose,” telling ourselves that “purpose is bound to return”? Can that possibly work as a tactic?
Can we operate “without purpose,” telling ourselves that “purpose is bound to return”? Can that possibly work as a tactic?
Meaning Has Its Rhythms
Why our sense of the meaningfulness of life naturally comes and goes.
Why our sense of the meaningfulness of life naturally comes and goes.
The Cost of Meaning
While we may be able to coax the experience of meaning into existence, that coaxing can come with a high cost
While we may be able to coax the experience of meaning into existence, that coaxing can come with a high cost
Meaning Has Its Reasons
Why the same experience affects people very differently.
Why the same experience affects people very differently.
Why ‘Is Life Meaningful?’ Is the Wrong Question
If I’m no longer caring that much about meaning, what am I caring about?
If I’m no longer caring that much about meaning, what am I caring about?
On Craving the Feeling of Meaning
I need life to be more than just me existing, suffering, slaving, and then not existing. It can’t be just that!
I need life to be more than just me existing, suffering, slaving, and then not existing. It can’t be just that!