Dr. K

I'm a psychiatrist.

So for me, finding meaning and purpose is like a very practical thing.

So literally, a patient will come into my office.

They'll say, I have no reason to live.

There's nothing worth it in life.

I am suicidal.

I want to kill myself.

So I have a job as a clinician to like fix that problem in a very like practical way.

So I've got, you know, a couple of weeks, hopefully 15, 20 weeks to teach them how to find purpose.

And so usually the way that I approach that is there's a lot of sort of evidence-based scientific approaches to finding purpose.

I think those tend to work really well, but I'm sure as my

philosopher colleagues will point out and tear me apart.

You know, science has a lot of shortcomings.

And so then what I tend to find works incredibly well is adding a certain degree of spiritual practice to that.

And usually when we put those two things together, things work.

And the real proof point for me was when I started streaming, 10,000 people reached out to me in one month asking, hey, like, do you have room in your private practice?

And so I started to think about, okay, if this is a methodology –

then can it be taught?

So I started this coaching program and what we found in our pilot study of 1,453 people is that if you stick with the program for about 20 weeks, your sense of purpose increases by 68%.

I'd love to hear from my colleagues, but I think if someone asks me, what is the meaning of life?