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Michael Steger || Meaning, Purpose, and Significance

The Psychology Podcast

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The Importance of Purpose in Life

I think that I could agree with the argument that there are multiple things that give us that fulfill that mattering instinct and then still say that purpose is one of the biggest ones, like out of them all, that tends to be in the human population. One that is a fast track to significance in a sense. It's possible for me to reflect on some forms of, you know, some ways of, if you think about maybe some religions as providing roadmaps for how to live. There's some out there that don't necessarily charge people with lofty goals. Instead, they charge people with breaking free of desire and breaking free of striving.

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