This likely to be part 1 of many on the topic. In this episode we seek to define what purpose is, why we need it, and how to go about starting to find yours. One of the suggested approaches is based on the concept that your individual personality is at the center of this journey. We’ve created a simple app, called Own My Life (http://ownmy.life/) to help identify your personality traits, give you some ideas on what those traits mean.
References:
Purpose in Life and Its Relationship to All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Events – A Meta-Analysis
Fred Silverstone : Finding Purpose in Life
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/finding-purpose-in-life
Dan Pink: Drive
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452796-drive
Dan Gilbert: Happiness
https://blog.ted.com/ten-years-later-dan-gilbert-on-life-after-the-surprising-science-of-happiness/
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow
SHRM: Job Satisfaction
The Search for Purpose in Life: An Exploration of Purpose, the Search Process, and Purpose Anxiety