I prefer meaning to happiness: Peter Thiel
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I prefer meaning to happiness: Peter Thiel
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Human beings, he argued, are not hardwired for seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. They want meaning. In spite of what we say, we don’t want happiness. It’s simply not enough to satisfy our deepest longings. We are looking for something more, something transcendent—a reason to be happy.
the more happiness there is in a life.”
Screenwriter Leo Rosten pulled everything together for us when he said, “I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
Experiences are fun and having influence is rewarding but only mattering makes us happy. Do stuff that matters.
The primary consideration is thus not how your best work will support your livelihood but how your best work fits into a meaningful life for you.