Purpose means priority
Supposing that you were able to identify what’s worth living for within a story you didn’t make up. (Read: “Think for yourself” and “Find a bigger story”). There’s still the small matter of living it out. We’ve considered Socrates and…
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Find a bigger story
An important aspect of purpose is that purpose is always based in a bigger story. Purpose isn’t found in a story we make up for ourselves or a fairly tale we try to live with ourselves at the centre. Last…
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Purpose after defeat
My favourite film is Braveheart – I’ve probably seen it 50 times! If you’ve never seen it… that’s Friday night taken care of! Braveheart is of course the story of a man, called William Wallace who finds a personal purpose…
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Think for yourself
It was Socrates, the so-called father of philosophy who said the “unexamined life is not worth living.” This is where any thinking about purpose has to begin. The unexamined life is not worth living – a quote you might be…
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Living Telos 