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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa. On today's Stone

Choir, we're going to be discussing purpose and motivation. We're going to be tying these concepts

into duty, which kind of dominated last year's episodes of Stone Quire. We want to make sure that

we give you an episode. This is going to be a short one. If we succeed, this will probably only

be about an hour, because one of the points we want to make today is that there's not actually

a lot to say about this, but we think it's really important to get it on the record just so

guys have a framework to think about some of these things systematically instead of just being random about the duties that you learn about and then the purposes you assume and motivation for those. So we're going to describe how those things interplay. I apologize that we didn't have an episode the last two weeks in a row. We wanted to. We intended to. This was the third week that I prepared to do this episode, and a bunch of other stuff just went completely haywire and wasn't able to get it done. So I apologize. If you're listening from the future and you're marathoning as we intend, we want to make our episodes worthy of revisiting, then you didn't miss out,

have any disappointment. When we talk about duty in some of the episodes that we do, we focus

on that specifically, we're always talking about duties from God. Not all duty necessarily flows

directly from God. So the things we're going to say today about duty and motivation and purpose,

it may well be that it has nothing moral to it,

but this is how it's going to work whenever these things are assumed.

So I'm going to give a definition here that's not intended to be a fiddly etymological point,

not trying to narrow this down, that purpose only means one thing. I just want to tell you what I

mean when we're saying it today. Duty is kind of the universal. It's the concept of there's this

thing floating around out there that exists that fits for some purpose and some life somehow.

And then for the purpose of our discussion today, pardon the reuse of the word, purpose is the

adoption of that universal in your particular circumstances. So you're just basically taking a duty

and making a part of your life. That's what purpose means.

Again, there are other definitions and some of them overlap with that, but as we're talking about

today, it's limited to that. So just keep in mind, purpose is duty adopted for a person in their

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