Whitney Pennington-Rogers

other tools to help you more thoughtfully consider meaning in your life.

And member Shoshana has a question about whether practicing or pondering and reflection on your own mortality can help you build a life of meaning.

Do you feel like that's something that's also useful

I think one thing I find really striking and what you're, you've just shared now and what you've shared throughout the conversation is that there's really many unexpected places where you can find meaning.

And if you're really thoughtful about this, then things that you think, you know, regrets and mortality and, you know, crises like that, that they could also bring about a great opportunity for personal growth and understanding of yourself.

Right.

Um, which is, which is wonderful.

So we have other questions from members sort of about how we think about the way we can engage with meaning in the people around us.

So Miriam asks, how do we confront those who do not take into account their emotions and feelings in the name of individualism and do not want to feel connected?

I guess if we're trying to create a sense of belonging and connection for ourselves, how can we do that if other people don't want to engage in that way?

Well, I mean, as we look to the future and there's so many things that, you know, I feel like AI, of course, is the thing that all of us are talking about, how that will change maybe what our day-to-day meaning of our lives is, but maybe collectively, you know, how we think about human life.

When you look to the future, what gives you hope about our collective search for meaning?

Well, Emily, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts here.

I think this is the perfect way to begin our membership year and for all of us to contemplate these things as we're starting to think about the year we have ahead.

So thank you for taking the time to join us and share this.

Well, thank you for that, Dan.

And I also really appreciated what you what you shared there.

So I guess just first, Dan, and you mentioned, you know, I think this this big takeaway about how thinking about regret can help us figure out what are the the the rest of what is the recipe for the good life?

Well, I guess what has been your biggest takeaway from from doing this work beyond that?

Well, we're going to do something a little interesting next, Dan, which is have some members share their own regrets.