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Finding a Purpose
Brian Cam: I liked what you said about cultivation of a purpose as being generative and which you associate with becoming whereas having a purpose seems potentially to restrict things. The purists that I mentioned they think that the secret to getting to happiness which they seem to have discovered by accident is to avoid dogmatism or it's opposite so under their understanding dogmatism is having a view about the truth before investigation Whereas its opposite is something like academic skepticism where before you cease the investigation because you conclude that it's the truth is not attainable let's say. They found that through opposition by taking the dogmatic position and reversing it but never concluding the opposite just allowing this tension between these two they