Hey, upgrade listeners.

Want to come to the upgrade live in Brooklyn?

Live and uncensored.

Alice and I are going to be talking with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff and other special guests at On AirFest in Williamsburg on Friday, March 2nd at 2 p.m.

Get tickets at onairfest.com.

Thank you. Get tickets at onairfest.com. Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at Lifehacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.

And I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHacker's

deputy editor. And today we're talking about finding your purpose. What the heck does that even mean?

I mean, if you want to get spiritual about it, it's like, why are we here on Earth? But I feel like

it's like, why do we get up every day? When I ask you, Alice, what is your purpose? To serve Melissa.

Perfect. I guess I think about what is my purpose sometimes. And when you hear the word purpose,

it makes you think of something that is a calling in some way, right? It's the thing that people

will talk about after you're gone. Yeah. Right. And

it's what gives your life meaning. Right. And I think where I've kind of landed is what I enjoy

is actually what gives my life meaning. So define yourself by what you love. It's worked for me.

Yeah. So far. Yeah. I think that works for me too. I think that figuring out what you love and letting

whatever the answer to that be what it is, like you might love video games. That might be

what you really and truly love. Or you might feel like the answer should be family or friends.

Right, service.

Right, right, caring for the needy.

But maybe your video game work could, you know, your love of video games could lead you into

...