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Michael Steger || Meaning, Purpose, and Significance

The Psychology Podcast

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The Problem With Meaning and Purpose

I see the source of our superficial disagreement, which is superficial when you get down to it because I think what I've done is I've baked significance into my definition of purpose. So in a sense, I'm saying there's a unique thing called purpose that maybe combines some multiple aspects of meaning. It just happens to not be very clean empirically. Too many ingredients together. Do you know what I mean? I do.

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