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Misunderstanding meaningness makes many miserable | Meaningness

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Mistaken attitudes toward meaning create unnecessary psychological/spiritual/existential suffering.

I was inspired to write this book when I saw many of my friends struggling with the question “what is my true purpose in life?” This struggle makes you miserable. Finding your “true mission ” is difficult. It might seem that it ought to be obvious, but my friends seemed to fail repeatedly. There is no pragmatic, straightforward means to discover your mission; you need to use non-ordinary techniques, such as psychotherapy, divination, or dream work. At times they would be excited because they had finally found it—but a month or two later, they realized they had been mistaken. What they had thou

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