Ask HN: What are the greatest tips to find the purpose of the life?

[pushcodes]

[ordu]

The search for a purpose is the search for a meaning. But meaning is something that exists only inside human mind. There are no meaning outside of the mind. Only mind can make meanings and project them into the reality. And unskilled eye can be fooled by such a projection and think about a real object and the meaning of that object like it not two distinct things, but one unified thing. I personally was fooled like this some time ago.

So the tip is: to find purpose of life watch not the life itself, but look at youself, watching the life.

[oumua_don17]

This book helped me achieve the balance, though I keep going off kilter now and then, this one brings me back on track :-). YMMV.

https://www.amazon.com/gospel-selfless-action-according-Gand...

I guess you got to keep looking, keep trying intuitively based on what you know yourself, create a feedback loop from your attempts and when you find your purpose, you will know. Good luck!

[theprotocol]

Don't automatically be like "X sucks therefore I now subscribe the polar opposite of X."

The extremes are but 2 points on a huge spectrum.

However, the extremes are noteworthy points, and half-measures can be bad. So don't shy away from the extremes either.

tl;dr: Don't kneejerk. Everything is nuanced. But also don't be too afraid to commit and ending up believing in nothing.

[pizza]

try this one

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/05/hunter-s-thompson-t...