Victor (Vic) Strecher

I am a caregiver.

Suddenly that's saying I have a purpose in my life.

Wow, Cheryl, great question.

Love the question.

So I like to tell my students to be willing to fail, double the number of failures.

There's a star tennis player, her name is Emma Navarro, and she's one of the top 10 tennis players in the world, female tennis players.

And her father, Ben Navarro, lives in Charleston, and he teaches a course on intentionality.

And we were talking the other day and he said, in my class, I have my students go out and purposely fail in something and then write about it, write about that failure, write about the emotions, write about the experience and write about what you're going to do now.

So this is what, you know, obviously really at the heart of what I believe Carol Dweck's growth mindset is all about.

Are you willing to fail?

And then when you have a failure, how do you interpret that failure?

And I think it's very important that you continue being willing to try something

And maybe fail in it.

It is important.

At the same time, if you just keep beating your head against the wall continually doing the same thing, of course, that's not good either.

So it's a tricky, tricky answer to provide for people.

You know, the classic case of having a purpose in your work, no matter what you're doing, goes back to 1962 when John F. Kennedy was touring NASA and he walked up to a maintenance worker, a custodian, and said, hi, I'm, you know, John F. Kennedy, what do you do?

And he said, well, Mr. President, I'm helping put a man on the moon.

I've heard about so many people who have fairly, what,

One might consider mundane jobs and they find great purpose in those jobs.