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the only advice about finding your purpose worth reading

In last week’s letter, I explored the idea that having purpose is the key to a youthful, vibrant human experience. It’s one thing to know intellectually, but another thing entirely to actually find your purpose and live it out daily.

I’m probably the least qualified person to tell you how to find your purpose. I’m a mess. BUT. Because of this, I’ve been a student of how to find your purpose for years at this point, carefully studying how people who seem to have found their purpose live, and what their habits are, pouring over every self-help maxim, piece of stoic philosophy, and poetry to try to nail down how exactly one finds their purpose like a professional conspiracy theorist, complete with red string, cryptic newspaper clippings, and a full archive of C-SPAN footage.

The problem with most advice about finding your purpose is that it usually suggests …