The author states that people are too mercurial to know their own long-term desires. This is true for many young people - it was true for me - but you can and s

The author states that people are too mercurial to know their own long-term desires. This is true for many young people - it was true for me - but you can and should define long-term goals for yourself. I spent enormous time in the last few years thinking about what I really wanted, and it was an enormously valuable activity. Tracking your thinking in writing is also highly recommended - writing clarifies and objectifies your own thoughts, and once you've accumulated a few years worth of properly-written notes-to-self, you have an incredible resource for self-analysis. The secret is to rationally analyse your own values, identify why you value what you value, and try to define what unites the different tasks that you have found meaningful in the past. This post contains some hints of the framework I used: http://aristotleadventure.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/what-is-central-purpose-in-life.html?m=1 http://aristotleadventure.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/what-is-cen...