By Arthur C. Brooks — 2021
What matters is not so much the “what” of a job, but more the “who” and the “why”: Job satisfaction comes from people, values, and a sense of accomplishment.
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Happiness has little to do with it. Research suggests meaning in your life is important for well-being.
The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”
It wasn’t until I was awakened early one morning by a phone call from my urologist who informed me that I had prostate cancer that I started to panic. It took me a few seconds to comprehend what he was saying. He then ticked off a list of things I had to do.
An added component of cancer treatment is discovering what is most meaningful in the patient’s life and using that to buoy them during difficult moments. That, in a nutshell, is the psychiatrist's role.
Many of the mornings on many of the days in the lives of many of the people on this planet, it’s not very easy to find a very good reason to throw back the covers and get out of bed.
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“Even when disease cannot be cured, there is often a way to use this difficult experience to know more intimately the value and purpose of your life.”
There is a deep connection between meaning and beauty,” says Rachel Naomi Remen. “Neither is a function of the intellect, both can enrich a life, and perhaps we develop an eye for meaning in the same way that we develop an eye for beauty.”
Reading my philosophy thesis was like receiving an email from my 25-year-old self. “You don’t find meaning; you create it,” was my answer to the question, what is meaning?
Former monk Jay Shetty reveals a dozen ways to achieve a more fulfilling, happy and meaningful day-to-day life.
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Will we spend the rest of our days either dining on doom or drowning in denial or feast on what lights us up?