Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 836. Now in today's episode, we're

talking about finding your meaning in life. Because we hear it all the time. Live a life of meaning.

Try to figure out what you want to do out of life, trying to have purpose and

passions and meaningful experiences through life. And I posted the other day on Twitter, on Twitter,

to Instagram and Facebook and things. And I said, said like it's a question that I personally struggle with.

Like finding meaning out of life.

And I usually say like the meaning of life is ultimately living a meaningful life,

which is obviously so simplistic and easy.

But it's like what you, what kind of brings you up?

And the reason why I struggle with it is because of expectations.

And I think most people struggle with finding meaning out of life because everyone has this subjective

label of what living a meaningful life is and we've been probably taught to assume that right to

find meaning through other people's

subjective meanings of meaning of life, right? If that makes sense. Because we're always told that,

all these different opinions. We've got these special things like, I don't really go on

Instagram, but when you kind of go through the videos

it's always like these like quotes from like Alan Watts who I love um obviously he's passed

but loved all his stuff of people being on these like tropical islands or in nature and it's all

about living the best life, a meaningful life.

And unfortunately, it sets up this, like this benchmark, this expectation that if I need to live a meaningful life, I must keep up with the Joneses of the Instagram world. Now, I don't know enough about

Instagram, but I also know probably a little bit that most of those people aren't living a

meaningful life and they're doing it for maybe ego. And the chance I wasn't even them in that

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