Dr. Alan Rozanski

We have a basic psychological need to live with a sense of meaning and purpose in our life.

That's just the way we're constructed.

We're constructed with two eyes, two ears.

We have a need to eat, to sleep.

These are biological needs, and these are needs that we're aware of.

But we have basic psychological needs, which are true needs.

I mean, this has been written about by many people.

Maslow was famous for his pyramid of self-actualization.

There's a woman, Carol Ripp, who's talked about these, she talks about six basic psychological needs.

A famous book by, you know, Man's Search for Purpose by Viktor Frankl.

He talked about the people who survived the Holocaust were people who found a sense of meaning in the experience.

So we're built for this need to actualize a sense of purpose.

And when we do, it feeds our vitality.

It feeds that sense of feeling energetic and so forth.

And the data, again, the body testifies to this.

When we live with a strong sense of purpose, we actually physiologically function better.

We're happier.

We have more dynamic social relationships because we're full of that sense of vitality.

So that's why it's an important area to feed.

You know, the thing that I think is interesting that comes to mind as we talk about this is how do you get at your sense of purpose?