Seven Ways to Find Your Purpose in Life - Greater Good Luckily for them, having a purpose in life is associated with all kinds of benefits Research suggests that purpose is tied to having better health, longevity, and even economic success It feels good to have a sense of purpose, knowing that you are using your skills to help others in a way that matters to you
Purpose Definition | What Is Purpose - Greater Good To psychologists, purpose is an abiding intention to achieve a long-term goal that is both personally meaningful and makes a positive mark on the world The goals that foster a sense of purpose are ones that can potentially change the lives of other people, like launching an organization, researching a disease, or teaching kids to read Our sense of purpose will change over the course of our
How Purpose Changes Across Your Lifetime - Greater Good But is this really what purpose looks like? Alongside the self-help hype is a body of research on purpose across the lifespan, reaching back more than 30 years Following people as they grapple with their identity as teens, settle into the responsibilities of adulthood, and make the shift to retirement, this research paints a more complicated picture of purpose—but a hopeful one, too
Episode 69: What’s Your “Why” in Life? - Greater Good Episode 69: What’s Your “Why” in Life? June 18, 2020 | 23:56 Adrian Michael Green asks big questions designed to help teens—and adults—find more meaning and purpose in their lives
Can Purpose Keep You Alive? - Greater Good In recent years, studies have suggested that having a sense of purpose helps you to live a longer and healthier life, even when looking across cultures and controlling for known predictors of longevity, like cigarette smoking But these studies all had the same limitation: They focused on adults
Living With a Purpose Changes Everything - Greater Good According to Strecher, the strength of one’s life purpose—which involves a combination of living according to your values and goals, and striving to make a positive difference in the world—can be measured, and it correlates highly with psychological wellness and even markers of physical health and longevity
To Live Longer, Find Your Purpose in Life - Greater Good But their research suggests that its importance may depend on other things, like your general health, ethnicity, gender, or health risk factors Purpose in life, on the other hand, may be less dependent on these things, and so worth cultivating for its own sake Fortunately, there are ways to deliberately find one’s purpose, even in midlife