Throughout our lives, we accept a number of predefined roles, each with associated tasks, schedules, and behavioral expectations. These roles—student, employee, spouse, parent, and so on—help us ...

What is the purpose of life? There are as many answers to this age-old question as there are people, and they run the gamut from hopeful to nihilistic to, well, nonexistent. Here are just a few famous ...

Kate Ellis, a former English professor who taught at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, for more than 40 years, says she started teaching as a way to have a positive impact on others. In ...

YOU HAD BEST -- AS YOU HEAD PAST 51ST. MIKE: HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOURSELF, WHAT IS MY PURPOSE? THE PANDEMIC FORCED A LOT OF US TO RE-EVALUATE OUR LIVES. LATRICE CURRIE GOT A JUMP ON A PERSONAL DEEPER ...

As a young mechanical engineering student, and later as a medical student, Yale’s Samuel Wilkinson became fascinated with what science — particularly theories of evolution — might tell us about the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I believe you have a life purpose — we all do. Since there is no other individual on the planet exactly like you that has the exact ...

This post is an adapted excerpt from my new book, The Resilient Life: Manage Stress, Reduce Burnout, and Strengthen Your Mental and Physical Health. Purpose comes in lots of different shapes and sizes ...

In this first post of my blog, I outline the pragmatism and benefits of meaning-centered psychotherapies by providing an overview on how to use them in real life. Pragmatism is about connecting with ...

Viktor Frankl was the founder of the logotherapy concept. He believed that human nature thrives on finding a life purpose. “Logo” is a word that comes from the Greek word "logos," which means "meaning ...