How to Experience More Meaning in Your Life with Dave Evans

Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People

Guy Kawasaki

Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.5 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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What if you’re chasing the wrong kind of meaning? Dave Evans—Stanford educator, Apple pioneer, and co-author of How to Live a Meaningful Life—returns to challenge how we think about purpose. Instead of answering the abstract “meaning of life,” he focuses on a better question: how to experience more meaning in life right now. He breaks down why impact and fulfillment often fall short, and introduces a more grounded path rooted in flow, presence, and everyday aliveness. This episode is a sharp, honest rethink of what actually makes life feel meaningful.

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0:00.0	So if I want to have the deepest human experience of my own life, it turns out the irony is
0:04.7	best way to enjoy being you is to get beyond you, whether that's an experience of nature and beauty,
0:10.3	whether that's an experience of service, whether that's an experience of profound intellection
0:15.1	and having huge ideas.
0:16.3	But something bigger than you is actually what makes you feel like a real person.
0:20.9	And it's not hierarchical.
0:22.6	Transcendence is available to all.
0:24.6	I mean, why do poor people in refugee camps have this experience?
0:27.8	They're having a meaningful experience of self-transcending, helping one another.
0:34.3	Good morning, everybody.
0:36.3	This is Guy Kawasaki.
0:38.3	This is the Remarkable People podcast, and we have yet another remarkable person for you.
0:46.5	And, well, of course, here's an interesting, this is your second appearance, right, Dave?
0:51.3	Second time, yeah.
0:52.4	Yeah, so you're in rare company there.
0:56.5	Thank you very much for quite privileged.
0:59.7	So Dave is a Stanford educator.
1:03.6	He's a Silicon Valley pioneer, and he's co-author of a brand new book called How to Live a
1:10.4	meaningful life. Of course, the book before that was a million copy best co-author of a brand new book called How to Live a Meaningful Life.
1:11.9	Of course, the book before that was a million copy bestseller called Designing Your Life.
1:17.4	So basically, he's killed a lot of trees.
1:21.0	Yeah, I'm killing a lot of trees.
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