Serious comment, no judgment meant or implied to you or others: As one who grew up without the usual structures of family or cultural supports, and who banged u

Serious comment, no judgment meant or implied to you or others: As one who grew up without the usual structures of family or cultural supports, and who banged up against cultural guardrails more than a few times, consider the idea that books may help and the chosen author's angle on the question of purpose still boils down to what are you going to do today? If you can at least mentally strip away the comforts of your life, what will you do to survive, assuming you want to succeed (on your terms, not the world's) at something that gets you up in the morning? You'll probably begin to ask yourself what am I good at, what do I want to learn, how can I learn it? Reality is a constraint, and you have to figure that out. This may not work for people in certain mental states or stages in life, but I hope this helps.