Mo Gawdat argues that the purpose of life is to become the best you can be at something you want to do that improves other people’s lives. He reframes purpose as the activity itself (e.g., a writer’s purpose is to write), emphasizing skill, contribution, and intrinsic practice rather than external outcomes.
That's the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to become the best you can be at something that you want to be, and that makes life better for others. If you define life's purpose, this way becomes so easy. Because you know what? The one thing that a writer can do to achieve that purpose is to write. Even if what you write is discarded, purpose is not the book that I'm writing. The purpose is to write. That way of looking at life is very different than the Western way. And I think that way of looking at life, I want to become the best at whatever it is that I can do. That is the right way to live with purpose that is so powerful.
