Title: (This is a serious question, despite my username)<p>There are plenty of studies that show that having a &quot;purpose&quot; and working after it is correlated with higher happiness or well being. &quot;Purpose&quot; is vague enough, so to make things worse I am going to conflate it with &quot;life meaning&quot;, &quot;calling&quot; or &quot;personal values&quot;. I recently came across the Japanese &quot;Ikigai&quot; which seems related.<p>Ok, I buy this, however, what is this &quot;purpose&#x2F; meaning&#x2F; calling&#x2F; value&quot; thing? What does it mean, really? How do I find mine?<p>I think this is the kind of thing a fair amount of people here in HN have thought about, so I thought of asking.<p>Is there any research that goes into what is &quot;purpose&quot; and how to figure it out? I&#x27;ve come across plenty that talks about how good it is, but nothing that goes into how to find it. Any serious books that you may recommend?
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