Arthur C. Brooks argues that purpose, which he calls el rumbo, is the reason behind your daily actions. You don't need to have everything figured out, just a direction to move toward. Brooks cites Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie on why intention matters more than a perfect endpoint.
Purpose is a subcomponent of meaning. It is, why am I doing what I'm doing? Mm-hmm. You know, why am I doing all these weird things every single day? That has to do with goals and direction. If you don't have goals and direction in your life, everybody has said this. I mean, there's like Napoleon Hill said this, and Dale Carnegie said this. You gotta have a, an endpoint. In Spanish, there's a great word called el rumbo. It's a navigational term that means rum line, which is where you're going. It's the Euclidean path from where you are to where you're going. And you have to have a rum line if you're gonna make any progress, you're gonna have any goals in any direction. It doesn't mean that you have to be linearly making progress, but you have to have an idea of what that line might be. That's el rumbo. Even if the endpoint changes. Exactly. That's why you need an intention. And that's what purpose is all about.
