Arthur C. Brooks
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They feel like they're going in circles, kind of like a cruise ship.
You're not going from one place.
Humans are made to get someplace.
And that's a really important idea for the meaning of life.
If you don't know why you're doing what you're doing,
No purpose, no meaning, no happiness.
Okay, so number one is?
Coherence.
Coherence.
That's why things happen the way they do.
Number two is purpose.
Why am I doing what I'm doing?
And last but not least, this is the big one, it's significance.
Why does my life matter and to whom?
You know, if you don't know why your life matters, you know, and which basically means you don't have love in your life.
Because your life matters to people who love you.
That's right.
Your life matters to God.
That's that's the number one thing.
And this is something that you've done in an extraordinary way that when somebody talks to you who doesn't even know you, you see them.