
My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Five Principles of Meaningful Living
A core principle of leading a meaningful life is to make it more than just about yourself, says Michael Schurmer. Having a passion for work and a long-term career gives most people a drive to achieve goals beyond the needs of themselves and their immediate family," he says. "We are not isolated individuals but social beings with the drive to participate in the process" The poem Invictus by William Ernst Henley changed how I looked at my life when I first encountered it.
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