138: Forget Finding Your Purpose — Do This Instead | Deep Dive
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 25 December 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) joins us to deep dive into the elusive subject of purpose -- why you’re not finding it as easily as the so-called experts say you should be, and why you should be following meaning to purpose instead of picking a purpose and hoping it’s full of meaning. [Featured image by Smart]
What We Discuss with Gabriel Mizrahi:- The difference between purpose and meaning.
- Why reverse-engineering meaning from purpose is harder (and far less effective) than finding purpose through meaning.
- What an ER nurse taught Gabriel about the surprising ways meaning can manifest.
- Why you should be suspicious of what The Cult of Purpose is trying to sell you.
- The best ways to naturally follow meaning to purpose without forcing an expectation of what that purpose is.
- And much more...
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| 0:30.2 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:33.0 | Of course, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:35.4 | One of the most common questions I hear from both the old and the young |
| 0:39.4 | is how do I find my purpose or my passion? |
| 0:41.8 | I never liked this question, because asking it implies that we're supposed to find something magical like this in the first place. |
| 0:48.2 | And it also implies that we haven't found it yet, and if somehow failed in life as a result. |
| 0:53.4 | I also see a lot of YouTube and Instagram, other pop spirituality types, trying to tackle this question. |
| 0:59.8 | Usually, in exchange for a hefty chunk of cash. |
| 1:02.8 | This type of online baloney pedaling always rubs me the wrong way, and I'm looking forward to salting up their game a little here on this episode. |
| 1:10.0 | On this deep dive, I speak with Gabriel Mizrahi. |
| 1:13.2 | He's the head of editorial here on the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 1:15.8 | That's a fancy way of saying that he's the guy that makes me sound much smarter than I really am, |
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