Richmond DinhCreator & Founder of Tiny Challenges™

How to Know Your Purpose

9 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short motivational talk by Richmond Dinh arguing that people discover their life purpose by actively trying pursuits rather than by prolonged reflection. He uses a parenting analogy — encouraging children to try foods to learn whether they like them — to illustrate that you must attempt potential purposes to see if they truly fulfill you.

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How do you know your purpose? Well, the truth is you don't until you go out there and try to pursue it to see if it's actually the thing that fulfills you and gives your life meaning. I'll give you a real life example. So if you're a parent and you know that you're parenting your kids, there's going to be certain foods that you want them to try, and they are not willing to try because they have an idea in their mind of what they would like or not like. The opposite is also true. Your kids may think, oh my gosh, that's going to taste really good. Until they try and they realize they that doesn't taste good at all and they don't like it at all. And so with parenting, you quite often encourage your kids to try as many things as possible. Cause you never know, they may like it. And the converse is true. If they think they're gonna like it, then you want them to try it to actually know if they're gonna like it or not. That's exactly like your purpose. Whatever you feel might be the purpose of your life, you just need to go out there and do it. Cause you're not gonna find it by sitting at home and meditating and pondering on it for hours and hours and hours on end. Go out there and pursue it and that's how you find your purpose.