We need one another. We need people who won't necessarily share our answers to the question of the good life,

but they share our questions. There is something uniquely powerful about community built around shared questions. We have lots of ways. is a

community built around shared questions. We have lots of ways of phrasing the question, right?

What is a life worth living or what is a good life or what is the shape of flourishing life?

But one way that I really start to appreciate these days is what sort of life would be worthy of our

shared humanity?

I think it's in part just because of that sharedness, right?

Of course, there is something irreducibly particular

and individual.

We're each gonna come to our own answers.

But there's something powerful about as a group of people,

a community convene just for a moment to take up this question with this shared question about can we think a little bit about the worthiness of our shared humanity?

How do I lean into that? What's really the center of that?

So if you've ever heard the phrase midlife crisis, you might be wondering what actually is that all about?

And why are so many people experiencing it,

not in their 30s, 40s, and 50s alone,

but even in their 20s?

Turns out it's not a crisis of money status fame accomplishment power or prestige it's a crisis of meaning and purpose and we're increasingly

realizing that we can't easily live without these things, which is why they are the focus of today's

second installment of our January jumpstart series.

So how do we build a life of purpose and meaning?

Our purpose and meaning really all that necessary for a life

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