up:: [[🏠 My Home]] Tags:: #🗺️ # Meaning MOC What is meaning? - [[Meaning comprises three things]] - [[Limitations don't restrict meaning in life, they make it possible]] Why is it important to have meaning? - [[Meaningless suffering is the most depressing thing imaginable]] Is there universal meaning to life, and do we even want one? - [[Realizing life has no ultimate meaning is liberating]] Why are we lacking more meaning than ever? - [[Why are we experiencing a meaning crisis]] [[The agricultural revolution is the worst thing that ever happened to humanity]]. Before it, every one of our actions was inherently meaningful because almost all of them contributed towards helping our tribe survive through another tough year of hunting and gathering. Nowadays, our fight is less about the inherent biological needs of life and more existential. And we are losing this fight. Most people teeter totter between a feeling of mild contentment with life and one of negativity and sorrow. To have long term sustainable [[Happiness MOC]] one must learn to create meaning out of the accumulation of their actions and experiences. Creating meaning is incredibly subjective because [[Your judgements of events hurt you, not the events themselves]]. Personally, my goal is to [[How to create a universal state of flow through cultivating meaning in ones experiences|create a universal state of flow through cultivating meaning in my experiences]]. How does purpose work? - [[Purpose works in layers]] - [[Your purpose is whatever is currently keeping you from your vision for your life at the moment]] - [[What does it mean to be a masculine man‽]] How can we create meaning? - [[Finding and crafting stories creates meaning out of your life]]. [[Journaling]] can help you notice the recurring stories in your life and practice [[Lifestyle Design MOC]] - Understand the differences between [[Pleasure vs. enjoyment|pleasure and enjoyment]]. Pleasurable things are usually nice for our [[Experiencing self]] but not nice for our [[Remembering self]] - Become a [[The realized person learns to distance themselves from biological and social controls|realized person by distancing yourself from biological and social controls]] and learning to create meaning for yourself. - [[There is meaning in suffering itself]] - Connect to your purpose in whatever activity you are doing. [[It's not just what you do, but why you do it, when you do it, and how you do it that matters]].