Mark Hamilton argues that purpose dies in routine. When you're a static value producer doing the same job for decades, you feel stuck. Real purpose comes from creating new value each day that builds on itself, producing exhilaration instead of stagnation.
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This one thing is stopping you from feeling purpose in life, and no one's talking about it. I'm Mark Hamilton. I've studied the human mind for 45 years. I've helped over 2 million people create extraordinary lives and build excellent businesses. And this one thing that's stopping you is stagnation. It's a routine rut, my friend who's a pilot who makes a good living and takes care of his family after 10, 20, 30 years of doing the same thing. That's what it means to be a value producer, and that's the way all jobs are today. Now, compare that to creating values, where every day you build and build and build upon itself. No day is the same as every day is a culmination and expansion of the day before. This is how you live a life of exhilaration, and this is how you find your purpose.