Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

How do you think we should ask the question about what our purpose is and finding our purpose?

I always like Joseph Campbell's follow your bliss, like this idea that like you should follow those things that make you intrinsically happy.

And I also do this with my students at ASU.

Like my first way of like mentoring them is to try to find out what their core passion questions are.

And then how do we find problems to work on that are aligned with who you are intrinsically and what you're interested in?

Because I think, you know, if you want to unlock human potential, you have to have people working on things they love. Before you, like, try to think about a career or anything else you want to do in your life, you have to think about how it makes you feel, moving in a direction you feel like you want to be moving. People think science is this, like, technical thing that, like, you're just doing calculations or something.

But the way that we do science in the space I work in generating new explanations and new ideas is much more creative.

It's pretty emotional because you're basically trying to find out how reality works and think

about it and interrogate it and, like, parse it down to some concepts that you can talk to other

people about and then bat those ideas

around and try to build, you know, a theory and an experiment to test it. It's a really hard thing to do. And so I find, like with students, if they don't really care about the problem, it's too hard to do that kind of work. It's too hard. Yeah. You might be able to talk about it for a little bit, but you're not going to be able to deal with the years of research.

Right, right.

But if you love the problem, the rest of it's easy. What's your thoughts on the law of attraction? Or having an idea and seeing something in your imagination and actually manifesting it or creating it with the speed that it comes quicker. What are your thoughts on that? You know, I have a very strong sense of purpose about wanting to work on these problems, and I find this kind of interesting alignment with other people that have shared sense of purpose and the kind of collaborations and creativity that comes out of that. You get excited from that, yes. And in some ways, if I was going to rationalize that in terms of physics of life, that

makes sense to me because things will come together that have the knowledge to generate the

potential space. There are some explanations for things that we feel that maybe are very

coincident with kind of things that might generally be features of life in terms of how we feel

fulfilled in our lives and how we feel a sense of purpose. And ultimately, like, if you're trying to explain what life is, you're trying to explain how the universe acquires purpose and how is the universe a creative place. And I think the universe is generating itself. In standard physics, the universe just exists and everything exists all at once. There's no time, right? But in this physics that we're building for life,

the universe is generating itself at every moment, and we are actually part of that generation mechanism.

So it's expanding. It's expanding in the space of possibilities. I think people don't appreciate

how much can be generated on this planet. So chemistry, like people underappreciate how big chemical

space is. So physical space, a physical size of universe, we can see out, we can see Hubble, you chemistry, like people underappreciate how big chemical space is. So physical space,

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