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Looking for daily meaning as well as daily bread
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meaning
Improve your work by
1) Reflect on how the work you're doing can make a positive contribution to society.
2) Think about how, in small but meaningful ways, you can change your current work to enhance it's connection to your core values
3) Finding inspiration in a purposeful role model. "Imagine yourself 15 years from now. What do you think will be most important to you then?" "Can you think of someone whose life inspires you to be a better person? Why?"
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meaning
Drop in the bucket effect. If people feel overwhelmed by the scale of the problem, their contributions seem meaningless.
page: 166
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impact
effectiveness
problems
meaning
But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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meaning
Our most pressing problems--depression, helplessness, social alienation, and the sense that nothing we do truly matters--could be effectively addressed by integrating more gameful work into our everyday lives.
page: 36
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depression
meaning
gameful work
Meaning is the feeling that we're a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's the belief that our actions matter beyond our own individual lives.
page: 97
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meaning
purpose
Our ability to feel awe in the form of chills, goose bumps, or choking up serves as a kind of emotional radar for detecting meaningful activity. Whenever we feel awe, we know we've found a potential source of meaning.
page: 99
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awe
meaning
emotion
Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
page: 77
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meaning
"You know how when you give a talk, you like certain parts more than others? You have to love every single sentence. You actually have to go through your script and your slides and ask the question, 'Is this essential to advancing my message, and is this interesting, really interesting? Do I love saying this line?' and put every single sentence and slide through the test. If anything lands in the maybe pile...it's out."
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pam meyer
memorization
message
meaning
I want what everyone else wants: autonomy to make my own choices, to affect change to improve my environment, and to feel that my contributions are valued.
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meaning
everything is equally possible and meaningless on a long enough timescale
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meaning
possibility