5. What is the meaning of life?
Raw & Uncovered
James Middleton
3.3 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This episode isn't some wishy-washy bullshit trying to answer this question. Instead, I take you through my own thoughts on some fundamentals that I believe contribute to having a meaningful life, from practising gratitude all the way to trying to care less about things that happen to us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to episode number five of the bouncing back podcast with me, James |
| 0:07.7 | Middleton. Now before I start, I just want to say that I am so happy and truly humbled by the |
| 0:14.6 | responses and the messages that I've been getting so far from all of you who are listening |
| 0:19.5 | and enjoying the podcast, it really |
| 0:22.7 | means the world to me. And I was really apprehensive and nervous about doing a podcast before. |
| 0:29.4 | I started as always because you think of situations and scenarios and, you know, talking into |
| 0:35.7 | a microphone for half an hour 45 minutes without |
| 0:38.8 | swearing too much or saying um or like or becoming too boring so I really really appreciate it |
| 0:45.1 | I'm loving every single minute of doing them and it's always an absolute pleasure to be here |
| 0:49.6 | talking to you about some of the things that I'm really passionate about and take a lot of interest |
| 0:55.8 | in my life. In today's episode, I am going to be discussing the question, what is the meaning of life? |
| 1:04.1 | Now, whenever someone asks me this question, I always find that I've got all cylinders |
| 1:09.3 | vying in my head because I don't think that there's just one answer to this question. |
| 1:14.2 | I think there are many factors that play into it. |
| 1:17.4 | There are many answers and people have different opinions |
| 1:21.1 | on what the meaning of life is. |
| 1:24.0 | However, I do believe that there are a certain number of things and factors that play into |
| 1:30.1 | this question, which I think are very important, which I'm going to be talking about today. And |
| 1:35.1 | some of those things are, for example, gratitude. I think that's a fundamental part of encouraging |
| 1:43.0 | happiness, which I'm going to discuss. I think avoiding |
| 1:46.9 | doing what society says you're supposed to do is an important part. I think trying and always |
| 1:53.2 | trying to be striving to be better will give you a purpose. And again, I think that's a very |
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