The Biggest Lie About Your Purpose: A Discovery That Changes Your View of Life

Main subjects

PurposeAVAlexander VolchekTTTatyana TsvetkovaVBVitaly BogdanovWork, profession, and career pathPurpose without illusions

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Introduction
• 01:15Why understand your purpose?
• 05:44What is purpose, and does it exist?
• 08:45Losing life's meaning after forty: what to do
• 13:34The problem with purpose
• 14:05Life's meaning is the SAME for everyone
• 14:52What does it mean to LIVE?
• 16:58Does purpose exist?
• 20:06Two reasons for seeking purpose
• 22:20What is happiness?
• 25:15Why do people worry about money?
• 31:36What is truth?
• 32:12A person's main task in life
• 39:09How to widen your perception and awareness
• 41:25Lies versus truth
• 46:31How to recognize truth

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• 01:30

  When people ask this very common question, ‘What's my purpose?’ I always remember a joke that, I think, everyone involved in real development…

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• 02:56

  When people seek purpose or a life's work, this is the central question—the first thing absolutely anyone should examine.

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• 10:22

  When someone reaches forty and says they're dissatisfied with their money, family, children, or where they live, the first question is why they're in that state.

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• 11:33

  It's an entirely selfish approach to say, ‘Nothing is right in my life, so I need to find my purpose. I'll find it now.’

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• 13:44

  Again, purpose is an exalted concept with fundamentally egotistical terms. People want to find and explain the reason they exist.

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• 20:26

  That's why people get so carried away talking about people with a purpose, such as Elon Musk or famous presidents.

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• 21:01

  Treating other human beings as worthless, having put themselves on a pedestal and declared, ‘I have a purpose. This is my purpose.’

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• 39:41

  You're asking because you immediately want to reach a particular step. You'll never reach it, for one simple reason: there is no endpoint to widening perception.

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• 40:13

  So say to yourself from the outset that there is no final state of ‘expanded perception’; you'll always be dissatisfied with that.

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• 41:56

  When people learn the truth, they find out what's really happening: how people deceive and manipulate one another, why, and what people around them want.

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