Jonathan Fields

But part of what gets said in motion with everybody, with you at a much earlier age than a lot of folks, is this question of, what am I doing with my life?

Like what is a good use of my time on this planet no matter how long or short it is?

And so often we're fed a series of questions and a series of expectations that we try and live into.

And then we find ourselves at a certain moment in life saying to ourselves, I feel like I checked most of those boxes and I don't feel the way I thought I would feel.

One of the words that so often comes up in this part of the conversation is purpose.

And there's so much around.

And it's to a certain extent, I feel it's almost like a loaded word these days.

You have an interesting take on purpose.

Tell me more about your lens.

Yeah, I love that.

I mean, that simple question, what's the point of this?

Like if you stop at any given moment during your day and just take a beat, look at what you're doing or where your mind is or what you're not doing, what's the point of this?

I'm guessing for a lot of us, and I'm raising my hand here, solid chunk of my day, I'm going to be a little bit jarred by the way I answer that question.

Or maybe I actually, I'm not even going to be able to come up with, I don't know what the purpose, like I literally...

There's no reason.

I don't know what the point of what I'm doing right now is, which is information right there too.

You touched on something else that I don't want to gloss over, which is this notion that so often we hear some version of, you've got to figure out, quote, your purpose.

There is a singular unifying one grand purpose.

And part of our work is we need to actually show up and do the work and investigate things

To define or divine that singular purpose.