How to Feel Purpose

Do you want to feel more purpose in your work?

There are only three answers to this question:

1. Yes.

2. Yes, but I don’t know it yet.

3. No, because I am a psychopath or a sociopath.

If your answer is 1 or 2, you’re in the right place. If your answer is 3, you’re going to need a refund because this newsletter is not going to work out for you at all.

There is a reason most people want to feel more purpose in their lives. For the overwhelming majority of us, our brains were quite literally built for it. We crave it. We know when we don’t have it. And when we do have it, we feel better than we ever have before.

Even though brains were built for purpose, purpose is a mystery to most brains. There are two issues I hear most when people struggle with purpose: vagueness and largeness. Vagueness meaning that purpose doesn’t feel concrete (especially in contrast to the brain’s very clear understanding of safety and reward). Largeness meaning purpose has this grandiosity to it: to many people, it feels like purpose is only about huge things like saving lives, curing cancer, or inventing society-changing stuff.

There’s great news for you and the people you work with. We’re going to clear both of these issues up right away today, and you’re going to head into this week with a clear understanding of how to think about purpose, feel it, and watch it go to work in yourself and the people around you.

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