I prefer meaning to happiness: Peter Thiel
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I prefer meaning to happiness: Peter Thiel
More important is the realization that finding something worth doing indefinitely is more powerful and exciting than any type of security, comfort, stability, or respect a job might offer.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire. You have to be able to say, at the end, wow, that's pretty cool.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
happiness less as a goal and more as a by-product of mastery and meaning.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
What man actually needs is not some tension-less state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
Maria Popova • How to Find Fulfilling Work
This theory is consistent with data suggesting that meaning is healthier than happiness, and that people who look for purpose in their work are more successful in pursuing their passions—and less likely to quit their jobs—than those who look for joy. While enjoyment waxes and wanes, meaning tends to last.