Modern Wisdom

#366 - Dr Clay Routledge - A Psychologist's Tips To Find Meaning

Sep 2, 2021

01:17:11

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The Importance of Meaning in Life

00:54

The Relationship between Agency and Purpose

01:09

Is Autumn Farm Giving a Spiritual Paradise?

05:10

Is There Something Magical About the Human Experience?

04:40

Introduction

5min

What I'm Really Interested in Is the Uniquely Human Capacity to Ask Big Questions

2min

Is There a Future for Psychology?

5min

The Solution to Giving a Human Meaning

3min

The Great Intelligence Comes With a Great Deal of Anxiety

5min

The Desire for Meaning and Transcendentity

2min

Is There a Sub Component of Meaning?

5min

Is Your Material Situation a Predisposant?

5min

The Biggest Predictor of Meaning in Life

3min

10.

You're Great. We Don't Need You to Do Anything.

4min

11.

Is There a Meaning in Isolation?

5min

12.

Are All Meaning Projects Created Equally?

2min

13.

How to Add Meaning to Your Life

4min

14.

Are We Re-Discovering Old Wisdom?

3min

15.

Nastalgia

2min

16.

The Future Orniented

3min

17.

Is There Something Magical About the Human Experience?

5min

18.

Is Autumn Farm Giving a Spiritual Paradise?

5min

19.

Is There a Bias in Your Decisions?

4min

20.

The Importance of the Scientific Rationalism

7min

Dr Clay Routledge is a Professor of Management at North Dakota State University and an author.

How to find meaning in life is a question that's been grappled with for thousands of years. As an Existential Psychologist, Clay uses modern methods to answer these ancient questions and provides an awesome overview of our current understanding of what meaning is, why it's important and how to attain it.

Expect to learn why nature would design a creature that requires meaning to feel fulfilled, the most robust ways to add meaning to your life, why religion might have answered a lot of the questions we're now asking, Clay's views on the importance of nostalgia and much more...

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