Christopher Panagiotu explains how his book opens by asking readers to define their core purpose, their reason for being. He describes purpose as a stewardship that guides life through phases: today's actions, future planning, retirement, and legacy. The legacy phase loops back to reaffirm the original purpose, creating a continuous cycle.
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It reminds me of the first sort of call to action in your book, Chris, which is all around purpose, right? So Simon Sinek's Start with Why is all about defining your intention for existing. And that's sort of what you help the reader with in the beginning of the book, right, Chris?
When I wrote the book, and you're capitalizing on what is your purpose, you're really setting the stage of, okay, now I know what I have been put on this earth to do. And then you go through all of the academic side or scientific side of things, But you're always going to fall back on the stewardship of your purpose. So you start with the purpose, and then as time goes on, you start to build these black and white checks and balances of things that you need to do. And then over time, once you've capitalized today, then you start to capitalize tomorrow, then you capitalize retirement, then you capitalize your legacy. Notice, once you start capitalizing your legacy, it all funnels back to what that purpose is.