James Laughlin asks Jen how to advise someone young about living with purpose. She says lean into what's fun, focus on impacting others, and treat life as a gift rather than something to optimize.
Pretend that you're fast forwarding into the future, many, many years into the future. You're highly aware that it's your last day here on Earth, and someone very young that you love walks into the room and says, jen, how do I go about leading my life on purpose? What would you say to them?
I would say lean in to what's fun. Like, we make life hard and serious, and it comes at us full force. It's our job to make it fun. Like when you know you're going to get to the top of the mountain, you don't stress about getting to the top of the mountain anymore. You stress about like, how do I make this enjoyable? How do I have a good time? How do I impact others? So the younger versions of ourselves have fun. Like, enjoy this gift of life and understand it's all going to work out.
