#16: Developing Purpose in College-UConn Honors Student Lily Forand

How can college students effectively find purpose in their lives? They have so many options--which is best?
Today's guest is Lily Forand. She is gifted at finding purpose. Though just a sophomore, she has already made courageous--at times risky--decisions to pursue purpose. She turned down  acceptance at an Ivy League school because she believed that attending a state university would better fit her discovery of purpose.  At 17 she took a gap year to intern for a Senator  in Washington DC. She even tried out beekeeping.
From Lily's story, we learn important principles about finding purpose. They include:
* The true cost of pursuing conventional success for its own sake
* The need to prioritize our day-to-day emotions and experiences in planning a career
* How to assess opportunities in our life in terms of how they will affect our purpose
* The value of sampling small experiences for discerning what is purposeful
* How we can be the director of our own life experience

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The School of Purpose is a place to learn the process of finding purpose in life. Visit us at schoolofpurpose.org.
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Edited and Produced by Josh Gilbert, Music also by Josh Gilbert. 
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