Does everyone need a single life purpose? Research shows people with a written purpose report higher positive emotion, greater life satisfaction, and better health outcomes. One study found a strong sense of purpose can outweigh exercise, diet, and smoking in its impact on well-being.
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I would love to, uh, know your thoughts around purpose, the importance of purpose, and if you believe that we each have like one underlying purpose that like can push us through life.
Yeah, purpose is really important. Again, the research around it— purpose is that just that general direction in life. And the research tells us that people who have that purpose, not just a general in the ether, I think I kind of have a purpose, but you've actually thought about it and you've actually written it down. In fact, I have an exercise in the book about writing out your purpose. And some of the research says that people that have purpose are have more positive emotion, have more life satisfaction, are healthier. Um, there's one study that determined that people that had purpose in life, that factor overcame things like, um, exercise, diet, smoking, that all you had to do is really have that tight, defined purpose. Now it can change, but you're actually, you know what your purpose is. It can have that much effect on you and your health by just knowing that general