Why are you alive and what would you die happily for right now? 💭 Lifted from a profoundly insightful exchange I had with Arthur Brooks recently on the pod. Episode 891. ✌🏼🌱 - Rich

When I talk to my students, they're on average 28 years old, they're MBA students at Harvard. I say, one of your projects is gonna be to be thinking very, very deeply about your theory about why you're alive, which means how were you created and for what purpose? And what would you die happily for right now? Happily, like- That's a rough question for anybody, but for a young person, you know, that's a very confronting question. They find it super exciting to take it on because they don't have to do it right now. It's like, this is the project and they're finally like, oh, I don't have to go find the meaning of my life. I have to try to understand the answers to those questions. Why am I alive? And so what do I read? I'll read this and read this and read this and talk to this person and, you know, start going and sort of contemplative practice. And you can start doing stuff to try to get the information that will give you some illumination around at least an understanding of those questions. And that's progress. It feels less unanswerable.