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The Lonely Search for Purpose
- guywithahat 4y agoI know Hacker News won't reflect well on a Jordan Peterson quote but in one of his class lectures he says something along the lines of > The purpose of life should be to find out how much responsibility you can bear, and then bear it And I quite like it
- cc101 4y agoAt age 5, I realized that my friends did not understand so many things, that their ideas of who I should be and what I should do were a death trap to be avoided at all costs. Well, the cost was higher than I thought: 71 years of being on the outside, a loner. Did I find anything worth returning? Maybe: "My mission is to fill my life with successes, episodes of enthusiasm, and burst of joy by seeking richly rewarding emotional and intellectual experiences. I will do this by pursuing activities tending to achieve my core ideals: truth, compassion, and beauty. These ideals are the essential expressions of the otherwise ineffable truth of the human experience." Well, that's the best I've got. I think I know what it means if no one else does. : )