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You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose

Hidden Brain

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The Importance of a Sense of Purpose in Health

A sense of purpose is not an objective truth, but a subjective experience. Tony and his colleagues measure whether people have a sense or purpose by asking some remarkably simple questions. So it's simply feeling like your life has purpose, which seems to be a strong predictor of health and well being. Purposeful individuals recover faster from certain kinds of surgery....

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