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“High quality connections,” as one researcher calls them, are positive, short-term interactions between two people,
High quality connections
We can choose to value people rather than devalue them. We can invite people to belong.
put the needs of others before their own and helped them during a difficult period or moment in their lives;
purpose is a “stable and far-reaching” goal.
Purpose, by contrast, is a goal toward which we are always working. It is the forward-pointing arrow that motivates our behavior and serves as the organizing principle of our lives.
purpose involves a contribution to the world. It
external component,
make a difference
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more resilient
living purposefully requires self-reflection and self-knowledge.
when they pursue goals that align with their core values and interests, they feel more satisfied and competent.
transcendent, or mystical, experience is one in which we feel that we have risen above the everyday world to experience a higher reality.
passive.
transient.
noetic—that
