SciShow Psych: How (and Why) to Find Your Life's Purpose

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: What is the meaning of life? It’s a question as old as our species, and today we’ll take a look at what purpose really means from a psychological perspective, as well as offer up a few tips on how to find yours. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: AAdam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740716/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11148302 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61489-0/fulltext https://sleep.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41606-017-0015-6 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15347530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22359156 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4334778/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11148302 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4643833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22075239 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2013.830764 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cd.290 https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_find_your_purpose_in_life https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/can_helping_others_help_you_find_meaning_in_life https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2015.1048814?journalCode=rpos20 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0193397309001154


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