What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dr. Clay Rutledge.

He's a professor of management at North Dakota State University and an author.

How to find meaning in life is a question that's been grappled with for thousands of years.

As an existential psychologist, Clay uses modern methods to answer these ancient questions and provides an awesome overview of our current understanding of what meaning is,

why it's important and how to attain it. Today, I expect to learn why nature would design a creature that requires meaning to feel fulfilled.

The most robust ways to add meaning to your life, why religion might have answered a lot of these questions already.

Clay's views on the importance of nostalgia and much more. I love talking about meaning.

It's one of the most fascinating topics because it comes to everybody in different ways and it's such a uniquely human phenomenon to need that to feel like you're connected and contributing to something that's greater than yourself.

So, yeah, if you're in the middle of an existential crisis, this might be very good for you.

Or just if you want to live a fulfilled existence, who doesn't want that?

In other news, actually before I get to other news, this was the episode that I recorded in the midst of Laryngitis.

So, I'm all, all husky and seductive. So, I need to apologise in advance for the very low tones that you're going to hear coming out of my mouth today.

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