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Why Purpose Matters and How to Discover Yours

By Simon T. Bailey — 2020

Years ago, I was living the American dream as it had been sold to me. I had a high-powered career at Disney, a big house, the best cars, a wife and two amazing children. But I was miserable.

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The Atheist’s Way: Living Well Without Gods

In The Atheist’s Way, Eric Maisel teaches you how to make rich personal meaning despite the absence of beneficent gods and the indifference of the universe to human concerns. Exploding the myth that there is any meaning to find or to seek, Dr.

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Eric Maisel
2009
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Life Purpose Boot Camp: The 8-Week Breakthrough Plan for Creating a Meaningful Life

As life gets busier and more complicated we crave something larger and more meaningful than just ticking another item off our to-do list. In the past, we’ve looked to religion or outside guidance for that sense of purpose, but today fewer people are fulfilled by traditional approaches to meaning.

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Eric Maisel
2014
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Everybody Dies, But Not Everybody Lives

The one thing you should know before you die.

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Prince EA
2016
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking.

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Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
2016
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Ep. 285 | Finding Meaning (with Jamie Wheal)

Joshua and Ryan talk about our constant search for meaning, purpose, and significance, and they discuss ways we can rethink spirituality, sex, and death with author Jamie Wheal.

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Jamie Wheal
2021
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54:51

Sir Ken Robinson: Finding Your Element

In Finding Your Element, author and educator, Sir Ken Robinson, offers viewers a guide to finding and being in their element. He provides basic principles and tools to help guide them to do the work they enjoy with a sense of contentment and purpose.

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Kenneth Robinson
2019
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A New Purpose: Redefining Money, Family, Work, Retirement, and Success

Happiness in life is about more than what’s in your bank account or stock portfolio. Success is more than achieving power and respect. Each one of us has a responsibility for changing the world in a positive, significant, and enduring way—and the challenge is less daunting than you might think.

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Ken Dychtwald, Daniel J Kadlec
2025
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With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life

A New Purpose, written by Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., and Daniel J. Kadlec, redefines the American view of success, employment, retirement, and living a significant life.

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Ken Dychtwald, Daniel J. Kadlec
2009
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Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

New York Times bestselling author and medical intuitive Caroline Myss has found that when people don’t understand their purpose in life the result can be depression, anxiety, fatigue, and eventually physical illness—in short, a spiritual malaise of epidemic proportions.

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Caroline Myss
2025
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Simon Sinek: How to Make Your Life a Success | Inc.

In this revealing interview, Simon Sinek chronicles the journey of finding his own “why,” how he came up with his ideas, and how he eventually became one of the country’s most recognized thought leaders.

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Simon Sinek
2018
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