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Find the Meaning of Your Life Part 3: Why Meaning Matters

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This is the final episode in my 3-part series on meaning, and it begins with a question I couldn’t ignore when I returned to campus five years ago: why do so many successful, driven people feel anxious, depressed, and lonely?

In this episode, I share three real-life stories from my new book, The Meaning of Your Life. These stories reveal what’s missing—and why the problem isn’t a lack of enjoyment or satisfaction, but rather the third macronutrient of happiness, meaning. I finish by sharing the six protocols from my book to help you move beyond distraction and build a more meaningful life in six months. If you want to go deeper, I hope you’ll consider the book.

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Referenced:

• The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness

• Why Your Perfect Life Feels So Empty (Sneak Peek)

• The Happiness Scale

• Self-inflicted pain out of boredom

• PART 1: Find the Meaning of Your Life: The Hidden Power of Boredom

• PART 2: How the Meaning of Life Affects Your Brain

• Ian McGilchrist’s website

• The Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses

• Monitoring the Future

• The Three Macronutrients of Happiness, and How to Measure Yours

• 3 Rules to Fall in Love and Stay in Love

guest appearing in this episode

(00:00) Intro

(02:52) Recap of Part 1 and Part 2

(07:56) Why I wrote The Meaning of Your Life

(14:37) The connection between lack of meaning, anxiety, and depression

(17:05) Why case studies matter

(19:43) Story #1: The garbage disposal

(24:13) Story #2: Just stay busy

(26:40) Story #3: A long hike to…somewhere

(30:02) What these stories reveal

(33:18) Six protocols from The Meaning of Your Life

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